Quote - That thing with the planets is totally NUTS!

Pluto should be downgraded to what it is, a lump of rock at the edge of our system like many thousands or millions of them over there!

I heard that because of this re-classification the Moon might even be called a planet!!

PATHETIC!

 

Moon a planet no... its center of Gravity is the Earth, therefore it is a satellite.

Pluto and Charon are now a Double Planet. Ceres (in the Asteriod Belt) is now a Planet, and 2003 UA313 is now a Planet and it also has one moon. Xena and Gabrielle are the code name for these last two, but those are not the official Names. (However, if they take too long to name them, everyone will call them by those names!)  There is also another classification, and that is a Pluton. That is for bodies that have a highly unusal orbit. There are also up to 100 items that they do not have enough Mass and Gravitational Data to classify as a Planet or a Pluton.

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aka John