Thread: What is your definition of a planet?Do you think Pluto should be called a planet?

There seems to be a little debate over this mainly because of Pluto.Right now if they redifine the term planet,we will have a solar system of 12 instead of 9/8 planets.So what is your definition of a planet?Do you think Pluto qualifies to be a planet?Theres also apaprently a new planet discovered,nicknamed Xena that is larger and farther than Pluto and also orbits around the sun.

Xena? The best they could come up with is Xena?

Actually Brown,the one who discovered 2003 UB313 nicknamed it Xena.Scientifically it is known as 2003 UB313

Nah, Pluto shouldn't technically be a planet, but it's still going to be one since all the textbooks we had in 1st grades will keep it that way. Pluto's a little too small, and it's more of a huge rock than an actually planet. Although, it's still better than Uranus, tee hee hee...

Chuck Norris' left nut is a planet.

Well, kids in the past studied that the Earth was flat, and that didn't stopped changing stuff just because of textbooks. And no, Pluto shouldn't be refered as a planet.

Isn't Pluto going to ditch our solar system for a hotter one in the medium future? I feel unloved... but hey, we got XENA!

My personal definition of a planet is this, a body of matter with a large enough gravity well to pull itself into a spherical shape, and support an atmosphere greater than the background vacuum by a few orders of magnitude.

Meh. Pluto probably isn't a planet, but who am I to decide?

I don't think they should. Its orbit is too irregular and it's not massive enough. And it's so far away from the sun.