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Wittman
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Do you think that Pluto should become a planet or stay as a dwarf planet.

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woody_7007
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Peasant

To be honest Wittman i dont give a shit.

Wittman
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Nomad

Well pluto can have a huge impact on us. If you knew the importance of it.

woody_7007
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Peasant

o ok i am sorry i didnt realise the title of calling it a dwarf or regular sized planet was going to affect me i apologise sincerely

Wittman
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Well, it isn't the title. It is just that Pluto is moving further away from as so that means there is a bigger object that has more gravitational pull then the sun. And we haven't discovered it yet so that could mean something is wrong. And I still think it should be a planet because it has 2 out of 3 (I think) things it needs to be a planet.

woody_7007
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I still dont care that much but it is interesting. I still dont seee how the title affects it ata ll though its just a status.

Wittman
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Well, the title is nothing about how it effects but I was just seeing if anybody would like it to be a planet or not.

Estel
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I actually find this very interesting. I study a bit of Astronomy, and I don't really think something else is pulling Pluto away, but the orbit is kind of tossing Pluto out of orbit.

Wittman
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Well, as I read in some books. There was something out there with a bigger gravitational pull then the sun which is moving it closer to it and farther away from the Milky Way. But yet, it could just be all of the planets of the Kuiper Belt.

Estel
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I am 100% sure that there are things that have a stronger pull than the sun, but it is a bit early to detirmine something like this. I'm going to go look some things up on this. I'll come back later.....

Wittman
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Okay but still. All of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt should be able to equal out the sun in mass. So the more mass one has, the greater the pull. And the Kuiper Belt could be pulling the dwarf away from are system into their system.

Estel
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I would beg to differ that the Kuiper Belt's mass is greater than the sun's. If it was so great, than why are some of the commets in the Kuiper Belt caught by planets? The moons of Neptune and Uranus are believed to be part of the Kuiper Belt, so how could Neptune, a significantly smaller planet than the sun, be able to hold orbit of those planets? Also, if it has more mass than the sun, then why hasn't it dragged other planets into its orbit? Pluto is being pulled to the Kuiper Belt possibly because the Sun's gravitational pull is weaker.

Wittman
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Or maybe since Pluto is very far away from the Sun, the suns gravitational pull is weak because of the distance it has. So in that case, Pluto is being pulled away from or orbit and moved into the Kuiper Belt. And the only reason Uranus and Neptune are in the orbit without any problems in not only because the pull of the sun, but the pull of Jupiter and Saturn. Together, the keep Neptune and Saturn together.

the only reason it has dragged other planets out there is because they are to big to be effected by the dwarfs, and because the sun, Jupiter, and Saturn are keeping them here.

Estel
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I agree with you for the first part, but the part about Saturn and Jupiter keeping Uranus and Neptune has some flaws in it. First of all, the distance between Uranus/Neptune and Jupiter/Saturn is never the same because their orbits are at different speeds, so the pull will always be different.

Wittman
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Okay, I get you there. But, how do you think that Neptune and Uranus stay in our orbit.

Carlie
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Pluto has already been demoted... I don't think they are going to bring it back! But their reasoning for it was that it was too small, yes? So if size is a standard for planet status, then Pluto cannot become a planet again because it fails in one of the essential qualities of planet-ness.

POOR PLUTO!!

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