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[hepcat]

Space was a recent topic in class this week, and a lot but not all of my middle school and elementary students seem to think there are 8 planets in the solar system.

Are Koreans taught Pluto isn't a planet (as some of the more puritanical scientists maintain)?

Me? I say 9 planets with a recently discovered 10th awaiting acceptance.

You?

[littlelisa]

8 is the current accepted answer.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html

[RACETRAITOR]

I say Pluto should remain a planet. It's Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that aren't planets. Earth has a lot more in common with Pluto than with gas giants.

Also, don't forget the 271 known planets outside our solar system.

[paquebot]

[Stormy]

I did a unit on Space last year & all the info I found maintains that there are now 8 planets, Pluto being classed as a dwarf planet.

It was a year 3 class & the students were all fascinated by this as, even at their young age, they'd always heard that Pluto was a planet.

In the end they felt sorry for Pluto ('poor old Pluto' as it became known in our class) so decided to always tack it on to any displays we had up of the solar system!

[Atavistic]

[mnhnhyouh]

8. That frozen little pile of shit in a crazy orbit doesnt deserve the recognition.


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[hepcat]

Pluto is a planet in my universe. I don't care what "the news" has to say on the matter. Have any of these 'scientist' guys been there? No! Who are they to judge. "Dwarf planet" my uranus!

[ChopChaeJoe]

I think Pluto was considered a planet because it wasn't known that a big chunck of the mass out there is it's moon, Charon. Now it's kind of like considering Dokdo an island.

[browneyedgirl]

If you considered Pluto a planet (which it isn't) then you would have to consider everything in the Kuiper belt that is Pluto-size a planet.

Then we would have to memorize tons of new planets every year because they are always finding icy rocks bigger than Pluto out there. Also, Pluto's orbit isn't like the other planets, it's too eccentric.


If they found a gas giant beyond Pluto (which they've been hinting at, but can't find) then that might be a considered a planet.

[RobWest]

Seems I remember a "news" posting within the last few months on the Coasttocoastam.com site that there has been found a planet almost the size of Mercury out beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Clyde W. Tambaugh was a frequent visitor at my university's observatory, so I do feel a bit sorry to see Pluto reduced to "Minor Planet" status.

[Czarjorge]

Nebiru makes it 9 or 10, depending on how you take the whole Pluto debate.

[ChopChaeJoe]

[just another day]

[yingwenlaoshi]

Don't forget about Korea. Korea is also a planet. The first planet and the only one with four distinct seasons. It's the center of the universe.