# Death to Pluto! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898 "2005-02-13T19:17:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jester21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jester21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jester21)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/1 "2005-02-13T19:17:19Z")
ok, this is probably lame, esp since it has nothing to do w/ Michael Eisner or Disney. But rather this [link](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PLUTO?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) states that they are considering blowing up Planet Pluto! ok ok… they’re not blowing up… but eliminating it! ok ok… not really eliminating it… but declasifying it… so it’s personal data can be broadcast across the internet 😃 ok ok… won’t go there… What was this about? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/2 "2005-02-13T19:19:19Z")
That’s just goofy. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/3 "2005-02-13T19:23:18Z")
Hell, it’s only a Mickey Mouse planet anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/4 "2005-02-13T19:24:48Z")
It’s not even a big controversy. It’s just a minnie argument. ---
**Author:** ![jester21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jester21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jester21)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/5 "2005-02-13T19:27:02Z")
personally I think it’s because Pluto is too close to Uranus :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/6 "2005-02-13T19:32:06Z")
This possible declassification has dogged Pluto supporters for several years. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/7 "2005-02-13T19:46:37Z")
Whoever decided to do this should be hounded to the ends of the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/8 "2005-02-13T19:49:52Z")
It always has been a cosmological mutt. It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie than to endlessly chase our tails. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/9 "2005-02-13T19:50:33Z")
Yeah, the last thing I read on the Planetary Society was that Pluto’s stutus was pretty secure. Some people make noise about from time to time, but it seems no one really cares that much to demote it. It’s effectively been grandfathered in to planetary status regardless of future discoveries. [http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/IAU.html](http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/IAU.html) [http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/headln-020499.html](http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/headln-020499.html) [http://planetary.org/news/2004/pluto\_spitzer1123.html](http://planetary.org/news/2004/pluto_spitzer1123.html) ---
**Author:** ![jester21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jester21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jester21)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/10 "2005-02-13T19:51:21Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Yeah, the last thing I read on the Planetary Society was that Pluto’s stutus was pretty secure. Some people make noise about from time to time, but it seems no one really cares that much to demote it. It’s effectively been grandfathered in to planetary status regardless of future discoveries. > > [http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/IAU.html](http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/IAU.html) > > [http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/headln-020499.html](http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1999/headln-020499.html) > > [http://planetary.org/news/2004/pluto\_spitzer1123.html](http://planetary.org/news/2004/pluto_spitzer1123.html) I wondered how long it’d take for someone to break the one-liner streak 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jester21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jester21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jester21)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/11 "2005-02-13T19:53:51Z")
actually, it looks more like they were waiting for the guy to die before pushing to demote it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/12 "2005-02-13T19:59:39Z")
> [@jester21](#): > > I wondered how long it’d take for someone to break the one-liner streak 😉 Yeah. Imagine that. From me! 😛 I was dogged and determined to actually answer something first. It was ruff, tho. Felt like I was just chasin my tail. Life’s a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/13 "2005-02-13T21:23:24Z")
> [@jester21](#): > > actually, it looks more like they were waiting for the guy to die before pushing to demote it. Now he’s rotating in his grave! Throw the poor boy a bone & leave Pluto as a planet. We’ve all grown up with it that way, and you know you can’t teach old dogs new tricks. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/14 "2005-02-13T21:30:42Z")
Yeah, leave it be, let sleeping dogs lie. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/15 "2005-02-13T21:59:25Z")
I think you’re all barking up the wrong tree. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/16 "2005-02-13T22:06:19Z")
I’d expect that from a flea-bitten cur like you, **Malacandra** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/17 "2005-02-13T22:38:22Z")
I wish you guys would stop hounding this to death. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/18 "2005-02-13T23:03:04Z")
Can’t help it. Someone gets a good streak going and we’re on it like a pack of dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/19 "2005-02-14T00:17:49Z")
Hades will inflict his wrath upon you if you guys don’t stop, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898/20 "2005-02-14T00:25:37Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > Hades will inflict his wrath upon you if you guys don’t stop, you know. We all know his bark is worst than his bite. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-to-pluto/289898.md?page=2)