Size does matter

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

Pluto, not a planet anymore

9 Comments:

  1. I guess teachers aren’t allowed to teach that it is and that what we learned in school is now officially old school.

    steve_savicki

    2006.08.24
    3:32 pm

  2. Yup. Science is constantly growing and changing. At one point teachers had to stop teaching that the planets revolved around the sun ,not the earth,etc.

    kevinblanchard

    2006.08.24
    4:01 pm

  3. It is still a planet, it is just a dwarf planet not a classical planet. Ceres and Xena (UB-3119) are the other two dwarf planets. I will be teaching all 11 of those planets but making the distinction along with the inner/outer planet distinction later this year 🙂

    lanie_lou

    2006.08.24
    4:21 pm

  4. No need to nit pick. I wasn’t using Planet as a classification. I was using it as a term of title. i.e.- “It’s not a ‘planet’, it’s a ‘dwarf planet'”. But I could see how either would be fine to use. Though I guess your way makes more sense in lingual usuage. Sometimes trying to apply mathamatical logic to languages doesn’t work well 🙂

    kevinblanchard

    2006.08.24
    4:33 pm

  5. I know I just thought you would be the person to appreciate it.

    lanie_lou

    2006.08.24
    6:25 pm

  6. and I do 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    kevinblanchard

    2006.08.24
    6:30 pm

  7. I missed that latter part.

    steve_savicki

    2006.08.24
    7:32 pm

  8. I’d hope so. They stopped teaching that in schools several hundred years ago 🙂

    kevinblanchard

    2006.08.24
    9:00 pm

  9. You’re old!

    luckycate

    2006.08.24
    9:03 pm