Voyager I at the edge of the solar system

[Desdichado]

Oh, I don't think it's official. It's too political to make the change, for one thing.

 

[Joshua Randall]

The Voyager space probes are, to me, the ultimate evidence that "they just don't make 'em like they used to." Hurray for late-70s U.S. engineering prowess!

(Now is when I find out the parts were made in China.)

 

[Piratecat]

If we only have eight planets, then all the other solar systems will make fun of us.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

*rimshot*

 

[Umbran]

Is that official yet?

Consider that you're talking aobut slapping a name on a cold object that nobody's ever been to. Any good scientist is going to be ready to change the designation given soild data. But there's darned little solid data on Pluto, thus the argument and disagreement.

Consider also that the term "planet" is already used to cover bodies with diverse composition - in structure Earth and Jupiter have very little in common, but both are "planets".

Call it a planet, or a KBO - it's a body large enough to cause measurable gravitational disturbance in the orbits of other large objects.

 

[Kemrain]

Kuiper Belt! Pfah!

Gosh-darn it! In my day, Pluto was Yuggoth, the Fungi were at home there, and we LIKED IT THAT WAY!

*babble*
*drool*

Damn straight! *Checks the 'Time Until Stars are Right' clock.*

Call it a planet, or a KBO - it's a body large enough to cause measurable gravitational disturbance in the orbits of other large objects.

It's certanly a body large enough to cause a measurable disturbance in the sanity of the scientific community.

- Kemrain the Kuiper Belt Observer.

 

[babomb]

Voyager: Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Then boldly coming back much later as the intelligent machine V'ger.

 

[Angcuru]

If Pluto isn't a planet anymore, won't Disney be affected in some way? I bet them romans would be pretty miffed that their god of the dead ain't so important anymore.