Did you hear? They discovered a new dwarf planet!

I think it is really interesting myself. I think it is neat that there has been a new planet discovered. I think it would be really neat if there were more planets discovered. Of course I think Pluto was the planet that is not a planent anymore because it shrunk. At the same time I have knew it as one for a long time.

WOW! I did not know this. Thanks for sharing. I do not think that it will be the last discovered as God has made this universe so complicated and grand that we will never get to know everything about it. We just keep getting glimpses of how powerful he is. But my question is and I am sure it is stupid, but if it is made up of methane how come it is not detoriated or is this why it is nothing but ice?

First off. Why did these snotty scientists have to go and demote Pluto. They changed history by doing so. How many years where children taught that there were nine planets. Now there are only eight. Then they add a new class of dwarf plants. But are they not still plants? They say they are but just smaller then they want to call a real plant. And what is this new one. Just frozen Methane gas. Does that not mean that if it gets to close to the sun it will melt and just be vapors? So how does that make it a plant? Then they have the gall to call these new dwarf plants Plutoids. Hey! they still consider Pluto as important enough to call something else by its name. I think these scientists just have to much time on their hands. The money that they are paid and all their fancy equipment could buy food and medicine for a lot of poor people here on this plant. That is if they still consider earth a planet!

All I can say is that my father (b. 1936) was taught as a child that there were only EIGHT planets; then had to refer to Pluto as the NINTH planet; and now he's back to EIGHT! If the scientists insist on exploring this dwarf planet, then perhaps they (as well as the poly-sci folks) should also take into consideration these issues: 1) how confusing is it for someone to be taught one thing, then have it contradicted, brought back the original idea, and now be further confused by 'dwarf' planetary issues? and 2) How many trees are we going to kill reprinting copies of science books--from 8 to 9 to 8 planets (and now a newly renamed dwarf)? Glad I'm done with science! While it's cool that we're learning all of these great things around the galaxy, what about the fact that soon we're going to lose the polar bear's natural habitat? Or that wolves are once again on the endangered species list? We need to take care of what's going on HERE on Earth before we go worrying about the number of planets in the solar system and renaming dwarf planets!

Hi beautyqueen, That is an interesting article and I'm always interested in new discoveries dealing with the universe. This dwarf planet is so far away, that I wouldn't expect there would be any thoughts for human exploration in the near future. If a planet was thought to be able to support life anything like that found on earth, then I believe there would be a great deal of interest. Blessings.