Demotion and Planet Definition
In August of last year, the media announced IAU demoted Pluto to a “dwarf planet” and they have a new definition of a Planet. There are a couple things that you should about the definition. A planet is a body that orbits the Sun, is large enough for its own gravity to make it round, and has “cleared its neighborhood" of smaller objects.”
In Lamen Terms, and Why
“That means that it has to be large and it has to have cleared its neighborhood of any thing other then the mass = (planet). Under that definition, science says that Pluto does not qualify as a planet. When first heard the new definition I thought to myself, “has cleared its neighborhood”. However, Pluto is not the only planet that has not cleared it neighborhood. What about Neptune, Pluto intersects Neptune's orbit Therefore, I guess that Neptune is not a planet.
Clearing Neighborhood, Telling the IAU
Then recently I saw a web page that said and I quote: “Neither Earth, Mars, Jupiter, nor Neptune has cleared their Neighborhood that means to me that they are not planets under the new definition."
Common Sense, the Ending
How is the IAU going to tell us that Pluto is same as us but it does not fit the definition of a planet but we do? In addition, we know that our “Planet is Round, but you see we don't know if Pluto is round. That is something else I do not understand about the definition. How can you say that a rock up in space is not planet if you do not know the answers to the questions that the definition poses? You cannot that is my answer you should define it before you see it with the ship that is going to Pluto and taking 15 years to get there. That is what I do not understand about the new definition of a planet. Next time its name will be 12 planets after the new definition. See you then good-bye.
