[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

I really hope I'm not only one who thinks this is stupid!

I thought it was dumb for them to remove pluto from the planets in the first place.

No, you're not the only one who disagrees with this. I agree with you. I think Pluto should still be classified as one of the 9 planets in our solar system. However, I do like the dwarf planet idea though. I mean, you have look at how small Pluto really is. It's only about 1,400 miles across. Technically, if they don't want to classify Pluto as a planet anymore, then they might as well get rid of Mercury too. I mean, Mercury has hardly any shielding atmosphere, plus other than Pluto, not only is it almost as small, but it also has the most essentric of all planetary orbits. There's actually a satellite spacecraft headed to Pluto. As I can remember, I think it's supposed to arrive some time in 2015 or so. Maybe once it arrives and takes pictures of it's surface, they might change there minds about it. I guess with the average distance being over 3 billion miles from the sun, compared to us being 93 million miles away, it might take a while for us to get the pictures back.

Great thread!