View Poll Results: Do you consider Pluto a planet?

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  • Yes; I was taught Pluto is a planet

    4 36.36%
  • Yes; astronomers will change their mind again

    2 18.18%
  • Yes; astrologers have it right

    0 0%
  • Yes; the more planets the better

    0 0%
  • Yes; the music of the spheres pleases me

    1 9.09%
  • No; astronomers have it right now

    0 0%
  • No, and Planet X will be found to make it 9 again

    1 9.09%
  • No, because I like new ways of thinking

    1 9.09%
  • No, because it bugs old-timers

    0 0%
  • Who cares?

    2 18.18%
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Thread: Non-chess topic fun poll: Do you consider Pluto a planet?

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    Default Non-chess topic fun poll: Do you consider Pluto a planet?

    Here's a non-chess topic fun poll on a topic that's perhaps mildly controversial, namely whether to consider Pluto a planet. That's in spite of knowing that astronomers not that many years ago declared it to be a dwarf planet, i.e. no longer a planet, which reduces our known solar system to 8 planets.

    [edit: below is a wiki about 'music of the spheres']

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis

    [edit: below is a wiki about 'Planets beyond Neptune']

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune

    [edit: below is a wiki about Pluto]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
    Last edited by Kevin Pacey; 10-04-2018 at 10:57 PM.
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    Bumping up this fun poll thread.
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    Bumping up this fun poll thread again.
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    Bumping the thread up again - more votes still trickling in!
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    Another bump for this poll thread.
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    It sure is, albeit a dwarf one

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    Google's definition of a Dwarf Planet, for what it's worth:

    "a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such."

    It seems strange, for astronomers to use "Dwarf Planet", when they might have been more clear with something stodgier (albeit longer) like "Dwarf Pseudo-Planet" to show that they mean such an object is not to be classified in any way as a planet.
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    We're up to seven votes to date for this fun poll, a pretty good rate for any poll on this Discussion book (not taking into account those within forums for meetings of, e.g., CFC Voting Members).
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    10 votes and the majority consider Pluto a planet. Interesting.
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    I must confess I voted that Pluto was a planet on "Melancholic grounds"
    But after reading a few articles here and there, I now agree with the official astronomers position that Pluto is one of the 5 dwarf planets of the solar system.
    The search for "planet 9", which many astronomers believe in, is quite fascinating though. It could have an orbital period of between 10.000 and 20.000 years, and it could be as large as 4 times and size of earth...
    The evidence suggests that the gravity from a large undiscovered object is influencing the orbits of the most distant known Solar System objects... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
    Last edited by Javier Gil; 12-17-2018 at 02:17 PM.

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