[Kazan]

[jdjtcagle]

hmmm.... (is pluto's charon, a planet?)

Sedna is the only one I can think of...

btw, it's stupid how they classified 8 planets instead of 9... I miss pluto

[Flipside]

Sleepy, Dopey, Bashful, Doc....

[Wobble73]

hmmm.... (is pluto's charon, one?)

Sedna is the only one I can think of...

btw, it's stupid how they classified 11 planets instead of 12... I miss pluto

Pluto IS classified as part of the eleven, it being a dwarf planet and all. And Charon is classified as a moon as it orbits Pluto and not the sun.

[jdjtcagle]

Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.

EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion

[Ashrak]

spaceBall 1 spaceBall 2 etc

[Wobble73]

Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.

EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion

True, what is it they are calling it now......a planetoid??

[Ashrak]

snowball 1

[Woolie Wool]

Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.

EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion

True, what is it they are calling it now......a planetoid??

Dwarf planet. Pluto is actually smaller than the largest dwarf planet, Eris.

[chief1983]

I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.

[Woolie Wool]

I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.

Dwarf planets, asteroids, etc. get a number and a name--1 Ceres, 399 Persephone, 134340 Pluto, etc.

[Kazan]

I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.

dwarf planets have their own naming convention.. and no it's not "1 ceres", etc - that was it's asteroid designator.

here is the difference between planets, dwarf planets, and everything else

Planets: Large enough for their gravity to make them roughly spherical, and they dominate their orbit (ie have cleared pretty much all other objects from it)
Dwarf Planets: Large enough for their gravity to make them roughly spherical, but do not dominate their orbits (Ceres is in the asteroid belt)
Everything else: not the above.

[Woolie Wool]

I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.

dwarf planets have their own naming convention.. and no it's not "1 ceres", etc - that was it's asteroid designator

Except that Pluto has the same kind of designator as an asteroid--134340 Pluto.

[Mefustae]

and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.

Actually, it's not a true moon. In truth, Charon is a Prothean Mass Relay covered in ice and debris accumulated over thousands of years.

[jdjtcagle]

I read the codex too...

[TopAce]

I guess we haven't heard very much about dwarf planets until Pluto was put into that category.

[chief1983]

Yeah, then we had to figure out if Pluto was still cool or not.

[blackhole]

I think I can hear it sobbing in the corner.

[chief1983]

My favorite Pluto shirt.

[Fineus]

And mine...