The name of something means nothing. If Earth were re-named to a Planetoid, and asteroid, a ball, or an uberschnitzel fart, how does that change anything? Other than the word we use to call it?
i believe it should stay a planter just for the fact it has been considered one for so long. good thing NASA or who ever is changing the name is spending all this money on some thing so trivial.
That may be the best two words in English history!
The name of something means nothing
You're right about that as well you could call a planet, a pretzel ultimatum or a radical fudgepacket and: Stick o' Planet Earth-9000 2 Dollars and 36 cents Planet-o-Rama Banana-Shaped Able to be carried by 2 African swallows holding it on a line Earth of a kind! Planet n' Grill This Earthen Life
For Pluto being a planet, you would have to think of what really defines a planet. I've heard theories that state Pluto being an asteroid in the Kuiper belt and is only orbiting the sun because it also orbits the great mass of the Kuiper belt.
To be honest, I have no absolute and definite thought on this. Very many theories, but not 100% either way.
I believe it should be a planet, but it doesn't really matter to me one way or the other. The name of someting means nothing, if my name was Miguel I would still be the same person.
OK, first off people don't go spamming up the "what should this be called" posts with "why do we call anything anything?? It doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things! oooh!", because that is not what we are discussing!
Personally, I want it to be a planet because I'm pretty sure a little girl named it when she was in 6th grade as pluto and now it's lost its status, so she's probably sad.
Also, it orbits the sun and has a moon! That's planet enough for me!
It may be planet enough for you, but to be a planet, it has to fit each criteria of a planet. Like I said before, it is thought that pluto is just a stray asteroid from the Kuiper belt, blah, blah.
OK.... jeesh we get the point that people don't care... you don't need to post "I dont care" 10 other people have already said it!!!!! If you don't care then don't read it or state your opinion because then I wont care.
Any way for the people who say it should be a planet...
It IS a planet, just a dwarf planet.
For those who say it isn't a planet it ISN"T! It's a goddamn DWARFPLANET get over it....
But, really, what does it matter if it's "considered a planet"? I'm sure that it has planetary characteristics and all, but in the end, a group of astronomers will gather the collective opinion (of their own) and thus changing the books.
Whatever the case is, Pluto is a "minor planet", a small insignificant little ball of rock up in space.
