Pluto is a planet. A few astronomers can't just change

>>8459061
>pluto is a planet
>>>/x/

>>8459061
weak, take it back to the drawing board

>>8459061

There is so much stuff orbiting arround the sun, you can't call everything "planet"..

But basically I agree, it was a terribly irrelevant intellectual circlejerking to undo Pluto's status. I guess it's about someone's ego.

>>8459560
>>8459061

Nobody actually in planetary science gives a shit. It doesn't do anything except keep the number of official "planets" in the solar system from exploding. There's no real controversy, nobody gives a shit, and it's had zero impact on any actual science.

The point of categorizing shit is to make it easier to handle. This accomplished that.

>>8459061
You have no understanding of the purpose of definitions.

How is freshman year going, OP? Is the intro astronomy class for non-majors a bit too rigorous for you?

>>8460915
Definitions are a word's meaning, as decided by the people who use that word faggot. Pluto is still a planet because most people still think of it as such.

>>8460991
This.

>>8459061
Classifying Pluto as a planet again is so last decade. The new cool astronomy thing to do is to push for people to stop classifying Gas Giants as planets.

>>8460991
that works for colloquial usage but if you want to apply that to formal definitions science would be impossible

by that logic koalas are a bear because people think of them as such

>>8461242
they are.
and spiders are bugs

>A few x can't just change the definition of...

But this is all Science is.

>>8461282
Yeah, but usually it makes sense.