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'"With this mission, we have visited every single planet in the Solar System," said Nasa's administrator Charles Bolden.' Uhhhhhhh... Should somebody tell him?
by multibear 11y ago
'"With this mission, we have visited every single planet in the Solar System," said Nasa's administrator Charles Bolden.'
Uhhhhhhh... Should somebody tell him?
- breitling 11y agoI don't follow...have we not visited all the planets? Perhaps he means we have flown past them all?
- mercurialshark 11y agoPluto = dwarf planet, so it's irrelevant to statement. Also, we certainly haven't visited all dwarf planets.
- electic 11y agoThe probe was launched before Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet. Either way, this is an immense achievement in both will and engineering.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- Thorondor 11y ago> Should somebody tell him? Bolden says he still considers Pluto a planet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11739763/Pluto-I-still-call-it-a-planet-says-head-of-Nasa.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11739763/Pluto...
- supermatt 11y agoConsidering the definition of a plutoid is effectively "a planet further away than neptune", I'm inclined to shun the plutoists and agree with him.
- lmm 11y agoCeres was robbed of planetary status before it was cool.
- valarauca1 11y agoThis isn't talked about more often but its kinda funny. During roughly the American Revolution there were 10 planets. Neptune/Pluto weren't yet discovered. Instead we had Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, George (Uranus), Ceres, Vesta, and several other minor asteroids.
- supermatt 11y agoWow. So many downvotes. You guys must really hate pluto. Fyi. Definition is from iau. Earth would also fall under same criteria if it was further than neptune...
- supermatt 11y agoAnyone care to explain the downvotes? Are you disagreeing with what I'm saying? This place is more like reddit every day.