# Pluto is no longer a planet! **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [March 7, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397 "2007-03-07T09:20:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toilofday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/toilofday/32/371_2.png) [@toilofday](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/toilofday)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/1 "2007-03-07T09:20:41Z")
Yes that’s right. Pluto is no longer a planet. Jubilant celebration is in order. This was a major deal in the astronomy field, but only 5 percent of the astronomers voted. lol [Scientists: Pluto not a planet - Space.com - MSNBC.com](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14489259/) We can not get rid of the P in all of those mnemonic devices (or whatever they are called) we learned back in elementry schoool My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine My Very Energetic Mother Just Showed Us New lol Just be happy it didn’t go the other way adding 3 new planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, Xena My Very Excitable Mother Continually Just Says “Uncle Needs Preventive Chest X-Rays!” My Very Energetic Mother Cindy Just Sent Us Nine Piccolos, Cellos and Xylophones [How will you remember the planets now? | Chicago Tribune news | Nation/World](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060816planets-graffiti-board,1,1198405.graffitiboard) Now when you have kid you can tell them, “When I was your age, Pluto was still a planet!” That will show those kids who’s the boss. ---
**Author:** ![Nunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac8455/32.png) [@Nunya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Nunya)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/2 "2007-03-07T12:13:59Z")
i’m personally quite upset about this. I’m a Scorpio. I need Pluto. it makes me extra-special. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/3 "2007-03-07T15:32:10Z")
Well I heard Pluto is still a planet if you live in Sallsburry. I guess I need to move there. Does anyone know where Sallsburry is? ---
**Author:** ![Nunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac8455/32.png) [@Nunya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Nunya)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/4 "2007-03-07T15:43:03Z")
England I presume. near stonehenge? that’s on the salisbury plain. ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/5 "2007-03-07T16:33:00Z")
Isn’t Pluto a dog and Salisbury a steak? ---
**Author:** ![MarkL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/markl/32/825_2.png) [@MarkL](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MarkL)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/6 "2007-03-07T16:42:54Z")
> [@Nunya](#): > > i’m personally quite upset about this. I’m a Scorpio. I need Pluto. it makes me extra-special. Be calm! It’s only **astronomers** who have voted Pluto out; astrologers still consider Pluto a powerful generational force. Are you by any chance from Lake Wobegon?🙄🙂 ---
**Author:** ![R0N](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/r0n/32/1570_2.png) [@R0N](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/R0N)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/7 "2007-03-07T17:08:52Z")
So what is Pluto now, if not a planet? ---
**Author:** ![MarkL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/markl/32/825_2.png) [@MarkL](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MarkL)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/8 "2007-03-07T17:26:31Z")
Heya! R0N is back – good to see you, fella. (I was wondering where you’d shied off to only yesterday.) ---
**Author:** ![dinan\_3er](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/dinan_3er/32/766_2.png) [@dinan\_3er](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/dinan_3er)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/9 "2007-03-07T17:29:42Z")
what is the difference between astrologer and astronomer? ---
**Author:** ![R0N](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/r0n/32/1570_2.png) [@R0N](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/R0N)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/10 "2007-03-07T17:51:22Z")
> [@MarkL](#): > > Heya! R0N is back – good to see you, fella. (I was wondering where you’d shied off to only yesterday.) Thanks MarkL! Good to be back. I’ve been busy, but now the worst is over and can enjoy reading the forum again. Astrologer: specialist in zodiacal positions, date and place of birth, position of heavenly bodies, to use esoterically. ie horoscopes, birth star charts, magic, fortune-telling Astronomer: specialist in observing heavenly bodies (planets for example). Does this for scientific purposes. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/11 "2007-03-07T19:31:10Z")
> [@Nunya](#): > > England I presume. near stonehenge? that’s on the salisbury plain. No that’s Salisbury! I’m talking about Sallsburry the next county over from Mo’s Tavern located in Springfield. Apparently it’s also legal there to smoke opium and they’re currently expecting Armageddon to arrive shortly. I think the main religion might be Branch Dividien. It’s a cool place; just last night a yeti was spotted with a pink elephant. ---
**Author:** ![toilofday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/toilofday/32/371_2.png) [@toilofday](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/toilofday)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/12 "2007-03-07T19:49:46Z")
> [@R0N](#): > > So what is Pluto now, if not a planet? Ah Ha! A dwarf planet is… - is in orbit around the Sun - has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape - has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit - is not a satellite That third one confuses me a bit. I think it means that a dwarf planet has not cleared out all of the debris in it’s orbit, and is still acompanied by other rocks and the like. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/13 "2007-03-07T20:12:51Z")
Dammit I just did a Google search and came to realize: “Earth is no longer a planet!” No what do we do? ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/14 "2007-03-07T20:20:22Z")
> [@steveo](#): > > Dammit I just did a Google search and came to realize: > > “Earth is no longer a planet!” > > No what do we do? Move off planet and back home. Men… back to Mars! Women… back to Venus! ---
**Author:** ![Nunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac8455/32.png) [@Nunya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Nunya)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/15 "2007-03-07T21:57:11Z")
> [@MarkL](#): > > Be calm! It’s only **astronomers** who have voted Pluto out; astrologers still consider Pluto a powerful generational force. > > Are you by any chance from Lake Wobegon?🙄🙂 you’ll have to forgive me, as i am extra-special - but i’m not getting the Lake Wobegon reference? > [@steveo](#): > > No that’s Salisbury! > > I’m talking about Sallsburry the next county over from Mo’s Tavern located in Springfield. Apparently it’s also legal there to smoke opium and they’re currently expecting Armageddon to arrive shortly. I think the main religion might be Branch Dividien. It’s a cool place; just last night a yeti was spotted with a pink elephant. i so need to catch back up with my favorite family. Ahh…television - teacher, mother, secret lover… ---
**Author:** ![MarkL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/markl/32/825_2.png) [@MarkL](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MarkL)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/16 "2007-03-09T22:15:17Z")
_ **Lake Wobegon** _ is the creation of Garrison Keillor, and the setting of his humorous fictional accounts of Scandinavian/Lutheran/small town life in Minnesota. The motto of Lake Wobegon is _“Where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”_ I don’t know how many years I heard that line from him as his formal close to his weekly episode of tales from Lake Wobegon on _Prairie Home Companion_. PHC is a variety show on Public Radio that started running July 6, 1974 and has been in syndication since then, with the exception of a two-year period when Keillor took a sabbatical. (Saturdays, 4-6 pm Central time on NPR, your local program time may vary. You will also, no doubt, enjoy the tales of Guy Noir, Private Dectective.) The show got a certain notoriety, especially among the literati, so the “everyone above average” / “you’re so special” phenomenon has also become known as the “Lake Wobegon Effect”. ---
**Author:** ![Nunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac8455/32.png) [@Nunya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Nunya)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/17 "2007-03-09T23:56:28Z")
ah…well I knew of lake wobegon and garreison keillor but never actually listend to the show. but as i said - i’m not just special - i’m extra special. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/18 "2007-03-10T00:03:14Z")
> [@Nunya](#): > > ah…well I knew of lake wobegon and garreison keillor but never actually listend to the show. > > but as i said - i’m not just special - i’m extra special. 😛 And we all know that extra special rides the extra small school bus 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac8455/32.png) [@Nunya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Nunya)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/19 "2007-03-10T13:38:36Z")
exactly my point. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397/20 "2007-03-10T15:07:31Z")
> [@Nunya](#): > > exactly my point. I hope it’s not too noticable; maybe if you wore a hat nobody would notice it. The point that is 😛 [Next page](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/2397.md?page=2)