I often hear that Pluto is not a planet, often people justify this with the fact that Pluto has such a bizzare orbit and does not travel along the same plane that the other planets do.
Which makes me wonder, why DO the planets travel on the same plane?
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Anonymous2006-07-19 11:54
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Anonymous2006-07-19 12:19
I often hear that Pluto is not a planet
Only retards argue definitions.
Actually, I believe the real debate going on is not that Pluto isn't a planet, but that Pluto shouldn't be considered a planet. So it's not arguing against the definition, it's arguing that the definition should change.
Personally, Pluto is such a crappy crap planet it deserves to die and never be spoken of again.
So it's not arguing against the definition, it's arguing that the definition should change.
Same thing.
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Fraal2006-07-21 4:37
The planets formed from a thing called a proto-planetary disc or a proplyd. This is a big disc of gas n shizzle. The reason the gas forms a disc is that all the molecular collisions that happen kind of end up averaging out into the plane where most of the angular momentum is, due to gravity interactions between all the matter in the disc.