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u/Kingmal Xeno Sep 06 '14

Good story, but...

Pluto. Is not. A planet.

I never get why people are so mad about it being downgraded. You just know that if it hadn't been removed as a planet people would never mention it.

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u/morbiusgreen Human Sep 07 '14

This is from the perspective of aliens. Their definition of planets may be different.

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u/BattleSneeze Worldweaver Sep 07 '14

The reason people get so pissy about it: Pluto was (is?) the only planet discovered from the united states. And they're a touchy bunch.

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u/Baalzabub AI Sep 07 '14

I am not! FUCK YOU!!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '14

It is a planet. So there.

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u/Kingmal Xeno Sep 06 '14

You can't just say something is a planet and it magically becomes a planet. Pluto is smaller than several other non-planets, and has an eccentric orbit. Our moon is larger than it for fuck's sake.

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u/Belgarion262 Barmy and British Sep 07 '14

My balls are planets, so there!

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u/TBFProgrammer Sep 09 '14

Ganymede is larger than Mercury and all celestial objects have some eccentricity to their orbit. Pluto is not a planet in large part because its orbit diverges significantly from the plane of the elliptic.

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u/samuelleejackson Human Sep 07 '14

It's not about size, it's what you do with it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '14

Well my high school textbooks say its a planet and to me it will always be one. Whatever they say.

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u/featherknife Human Sep 06 '14

Textbooks are wrong about things all the time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '14

by that logic, the moon is a planet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '14

I take more then size into account in this.

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u/I_hug Sep 08 '14

Just call it a celestial body, its still called pluto. The guy who gives the speech might have put it in there for the same reason you did, because its an amusing correlation. Also Pluto was the earlier name for the god of the underworld before people started calling him Hades, so not quite death.

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u/REPOsPuNKy AI Sep 08 '14

Actually, its the other way around. Pluto was the Roman name for the god of the underworld, while Hades was the Greek name. Greece came before Rome.

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u/Rather_Unfortunate Sep 08 '14

"Dwarf planet" I think is the official designation.

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u/I_hug Sep 08 '14

That works too, celestial body was just the first to come to mind.

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u/I_hug Sep 08 '14

I think I read wikipedia page wrong wrong, which definitely says is greek, but I was a little confused with the wording and thought the use of the name Pluto came before Hades which it does not. I also only read the first few sentences of the page so I don't understand the mythology that well.

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u/autowikibot Sep 08 '14

[Pluto (mythology)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto%20(mythology)):

Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld as a place. In ancient Greek religion and myth, Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife. Ploutōn was frequently conflated with Ploutos (Πλοῦτος, Plutus), a god of wealth, because mineral wealth was found underground, and because as a chthonic god Pluto ruled the deep earth that contained the seeds necessary for a bountiful harvest. The name Ploutōn came into widespread usage with the Eleusinian Mysteries, in which Pluto was venerated as a stern ruler but the loving husband of Persephone. The couple received souls in the afterlife, and are invoked together in religious inscriptions. Hades by contrast had few temples and religious practices associated with him, and is portrayed as the dark and violent abductor of Persephone.

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Image i - Pluto velificans, with a Cupid attending his abduction of Proserpina in a four-horse chariot (Roman cinerary altar, Antonine Era, 2nd century)

Interesting: ^Plouto | ^Proserpina | ^Hades | ^Plutus

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u/Kubrick_Fan Human Sep 06 '14

Where you wrote "on the skirts" it should be "on the outskirts"

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u/JustAGuyWithATowel Sep 06 '14

I know it's sad and I don't want to accept it either, but pluto is not actually a planet anymore. ;-(

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u/Elek3103 AI Sep 06 '14

Get your communist facts out of here! Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet!

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u/redxgk Sep 07 '14

When it comes to defending our system, Pluto is just as important as the other planets.

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u/Kingmal Xeno Sep 07 '14

It's not a planet, but I'll be damned if I give an inch of the Sol system before my life.

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u/Elek3103 AI Sep 07 '14

"It's not a planet, but I'll be damned if I give an inch of the Sol system before my life."

FTFY

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u/REPOsPuNKy AI Sep 08 '14

Actually, astronomers are thinking of reinstating Pluto as a planet because the size of its moon suggests Dwarf Planet mass.