Pluto Now Called a Plutoid

space.com ^ | 6-11-2008 | Robert Roy Britt

[Westlander]

The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term "plutoid" as a name for Pluto and other objects that just two years ago were redefined as "dwarf planets."

[Westlander]

Ah hell, now I have to throw my science project in the garbage.

[notdownwidems]

But what about Uranus?

[SES1066]

So now we call that stuff that gives such a bang “Plutoidium”?

[max americana]

Uranoid.

[max americana]

my bad...it’s Urectum.

[stravinskyrules]

I had an impacted plutoid on my urectum.

Hurt like hell.

[dr_lew]

Hey! This is serious s**t !

[Westlander]

[BigCinBigD]

“But what about Uranus?”

It's still classified as a Black hole.

[MaxMax]

Gortoid politics.

[NYFreeper]

He's not happy about this.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Westlander.

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[SunkenCiv]

Mike Brown’s Planets ‘blog:
http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/

“Plutoid Fever” permalink:
http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2008/06/plutoid-fever.html

His homepage (with at least one screwed up link):
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/

[SunkenCiv]

"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet.