Apparently we now have 12 planets instead of 9

[Grandmaster]

Our solar system would have 12 planets instead of nine under a proposed "Big Bang" expansion by leading astronomers, changing what billions of schoolchildren are taught about their corner of the cosmos.

Much-maligned Pluto would remain a planet -- and its largest moon plus two other heavenly bodies would join Earth's neighborhood -- under a draft resolution to be formally presented Wednesday to the International Astronomical Union, the arbiter of what is and is not a planet.

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Interesting story.

 

[gonaads]

If all this happens and the list is enlarged, I don't want to be a school student in the upper elementary grades nor the teachers that need to learn all this sozz they can reteach all them students that learned it the old way.

 

[Grandmaster]

We are now down to 8

Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is — and isn't — a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.

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[Zedric]

We should take bets. How many will there be tomorrow? 7? 9 again? 11?

We could get rich doing this.

 

[ming]

That's not going to go down well in the books.

 

[ming]

We should take bets. How many will there be tomorrow? 7? 9 again? 11?

We could get rich doing this.

It will be 7 once they realise my-anus in behind neptune. :nervous:

 

[falconguard]

$5.oo USD says it will change on Monday

 

[mlakrid]

Ill take that bet, it wont happen for at least a week while the petitions if any happen...

 

[madmatt]

My favorite article of all...

Pluto's lack of star power results in demotion.