Since scientists are planning on officially increasing the amount of planets in our solar system by adding Ceres (an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter), Plutos moon (something that starts with a c, but I can't remember the name), and another small planet past pluto unnofficially named Xena by it's discoverer, the "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" will no longer work, and will be changed to "My very excellent mother certanly just served us nine pizzas, cheese extra."

Umm... okay?

Sounds like a myth to me.

Also, have you heard that mars is going to be the same size as the moon to the naked eye by the end of the month?

WHA!? SERIOUSLY! THAT"S WICKED SWEET!

Reminds me of the Rumer that Pluto is no longer considered a planet because of its eratic orbit and is now classified as a bit asteroid or something.

Na, it's true. Read it in the news paper.

They're adding Ceres, Charon (pluto's moon...you can only tell it's there by a 'lump' next to Pluto, for crying out loud...) and Xena, the farthest object in our solar system. In a K-something belt that's mainly made of icy chunks from when the solar system first formed.

As of yesterday, too. Woohoo!

Edit: The International astronomy comitee allowed it- plus they're keeping Pluto as a planet.

The IAU may or may not be changing the definition of 'planet' to something that makes sense.

Also, Pluto will no longer be a planet, but rather a double planet with Charon.

Their proposed definition is something like "An object in space with enough mass that gravity has made it into a sphere shape and also orbits about a star."

I don't get why they're suggesting adding 'planetoids' to the official register, when it would make more sense to simply reclassify Pluto as the largest of a set of less-than-planet objects.

I think its silly... we're going to end up with hundreds of 'planets', when we really mean there are 8 actual bodies formed completely by accretion and other processes that eliminate the other debris near their orbit, and lots of smaller asteroids and planetoids that were left over which didn't quite become planets.

Kuiper belt

My Very Easy Method Certainly Just Speeds Up Naming Planets ('Cept Xena)




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14364833/?GT1=8404

You are very smart.

Sounds like a mess to me. Some people have too much time on their hands. Some people waste it doing nothing like me, others make pests of themselves by redefining planets.

I do not mind. For the critics, please read this: (from nuklearpower.com)

I think the space body has to be over 730 km in diameter (or was it radius, one of the two) and orbit the sun to be considered a planet. That's about 450 miles for those of you who don't like measurements that increase by powers of ten. So not every planetoid is going to be considered a planet.

And on some side note, up until the 18th or 19th century, Ceres was considered a planet by many astronomers. And Xena's relatively big compared to Pluto and Charon, almost the size of Luna. We could be a double planet too if the Earth weren't so big.

only took 2500 years for someone to come up with a definition, not bad!

What is going to be interesting is finding out how the tarot people handle this. Will they change thier system to now account for 12 planets each one for a zodiac sign, or will they come up with a new term for the traditional planets vs new planets.

Er... tarot has nothing to do with planets. That's astrology. Tarot uses archetypes similar to psychology.

http://www.indigoray.net/deck2.html

So, um yeah.

Ocording to one of the links on the site



Apparently they are just going to change the system AND use the word planet however they like.

Just because someone makes something like that up doesn't make it truth. Do you really believe everything you hear on the internet? If so, then allow me to inform you that by my beliefs, there is a correlation between the Eight One-Eyed Gods and the Eight Planets, each of which is really His eye staring down at us from above. There can never be another planet, because there are only Eight One-Eyed Gods, and they only have Eight Eyes.

I never knew that Tarot was an organized religion...

Please show me the official cannoized Tarot book that is the ultimate source on all things Tarot, that every person who practices Tarot (on the streat and at home and every where else) listens to, in every country on the planet.

Do you really want me to give you the full list of every Tarot book that links the planets to tarot cards?

Just to perhaps make the point more clear. The Tarot, and quite a few other such things, don't just see the planets as representing something intrinsic, as the astrologers do, but they also link the planets to numbers, and orders, and link a myriad of other things to eachother in a large complex web. So in theory, if the number of planets went from 9 to 10, then they would have to reorganize everything, not just come up with what the planet means, like they do in Astrology.