I still cannot believe Pluto was striiped of planethood!
By MellyMell
@MellyMell (43)
United States
October 24, 2007 8:52am CST
I learned it all through school, the planets etc. In fact Pluto was a new planet during my schooling days. We were all so excited! Now they just rip it away! What about Xena etc. They are looking at a few others as planets right now. I don't get it. I herad them say it was because of it's size? What's next... Oops, blue is not one of the primary colors!
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@uath13 (8192)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Actually it was done to prevent later problems. Thanks to the power of the newer telescopes scientist are finding more & more of these planatoids like pluto out there. So they needed to discern the difference betwen the two which made pluto switch.
Would you rather have you kids remembering 8 planets or 100? I don't know the exact number but you get the point.
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@MellyMell (43)
• United States
29 Oct 07
Well I get that but I thinks if we have more planets out there we should know and learn about them and not get so picky on the details of why we should discount them. It should not be because people are worried about to many to remember. Thanks for your input. ;-)
@uath13 (8192)
• United States
29 Oct 07
We are still learning about them but by clasifying them differently it prevents kids from being tested on them. Could you imagine being in 5th grade & expected to know the names of that many planets instead of just the 9 that we grew up memorizing. Their cramming enough into our kids heads now as is.
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@MellyMell (43)
• United States
30 Oct 07
Gotcha...but I still don't think it's much different than when I had to memorize the periodic table of elements, their meanings, symbols, atom count, family etc. and that was in 7th grade. ;-)
