Syd Lexia wrote:

My Very Eccentric Mother Just Served Us...

Newtons? NestleQuik?


I can understand the sentiment of resisting the reclassification, as this is the sort of change I'm usually resistant to. However, it really does make astronomical sense. Pluto is not a planet, but a Kuiper Belt Object, just another remnant from the creation of the solar system.

I would support the grandfathering of Pluto in, but the only real purpose that would serve is mollifying the older generations. Concurrently, it would instruct the wrong thing to children, causing confusion between the regular planets and the rocks at the edge of the system. I mean, thematically it even makes sense. The inner planets are made of rock, the outer planets are made of gas - why would there be another rock planet at the edge? Because it's not a planet, but part of random leftover rocks. Even looking at the orbits it makes even further sense. All eight planets' orbits are in the same plane, but Pluto's is at an angle to all the others, and intersects with Neptune's path. That's just doesn't fit the pattern.


Where's Tyop when you need him?



As for the dino-killer, I remember how unsure they were when I was a toddler, then all of a sudden they seemed almost definite on the asteroid as the source of their extinction. Really, there was never any water-tight evidence of the asteroid being the cause anyway. I'm not sure if we'll ever find out what it really was. Hopefully we'll figure it out, though. I know some programs on the History Channel recently have discusses how the asteroid theory has been eroding as of late.