Pluto now just a number: 134340
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200609...tanumber134340

Number: 134340

Ker Than
Staff Writer
SPACE.com Mon Sep 11, 6:15 PM ET

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.
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On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.

The move reinforces the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) recent decision to strip Pluto of its planethood and places it in the same category as other small solar-system bodies with accurately known orbits.

Pluto's companion satellites, Charon, Nix and Hydra are considered part of the same system and will not be assigned separate asteroid numbers, said MPC director emeritus Brian Marsden. Instead, they will be called 134340 I, II and III, respectively.

There are currently 136,563 asteroid objects recognized by the MPC; 2,224 new objects were added last week, of which Pluto was the first.

Other notable objects to receive asteroid numbers *******d 2003 UB313, also known as "Xena," and the recently discovered Kuiper Belt objects 2003 EL61 and 2005 FY9. Their asteroid numbers are 136199, 136108 and 136472, respectively.

The MPC also issued a separate announcement stating that the assignment of permanent asteroid numbers to Pluto and other large objects located beyond the orbit of Neptune "does not preclude their having dual designations in possible separate catalogues of such bodies."

Marsden explained that the cryptic wording refers to the future possibility of creating a separate astronomical catalogue specific to dwarf planets. There might even be more than one catalogue created, he said.

The recent IAU decision implies "that there would be two catalogues of dwarf planets-one for just the trans-Neptunian Pluto type and the other for objects like Ceres, which has also been deemed a dwarf planet," Marsden told SPACE.com. "That's why that statement was put there, to reassure people who think there would be other catalogues that this numbering of Pluto doesn't preclude that."

Pluto's asteroid number was first reported today on the website of Sky and Telescope magazine.

Fuck that.

2003 UB313 is the big loser here

pluto's really hit rock bottom

that's harsh

oh well. pluto had its 76 years of fame.

i'll give you 76 years of fame

It wasn't enough to give the poor guy a demotion, they had to rub it in his face.

The people involved in making this decision can suck the two planets hanging between my legs.

it's a little weird because they have a probe on its way to 134340 now. makes that probe seem like a huge waste of money, doesn't it

It will always be Pluto to me. poor Pluto.

pluto will always be a planet to me

damnit murgle I didnt see your post when I made this one

really, deal with it.

pluto is not a planet... that's science. we make discoveries

get out of my thread, ella

That was hot

make me you asshole :smoke:

i'll post where i please..............

he got the crazy eyes

Yeah really, and 2003 EL61 and 2005 FY9 didn't get any play either. Poor little guys...

you know what's larger than Pluto?

Io, Monster Cock.

that is a true scientific fact.

that wasn't a discovery, that was a change of definition

astronomical mayhem!!

And afterward they can all take turns kissing Uranus.

Pluto: "I am not a number! I am a free man!"

myosis stop trying to nitpick my shit, when you're wrong.

dis·cov·er (d-skvr)
tr.v. dis·cov·ered, dis·cov·er·ing, dis·cov·ers
1. To notice or learn, especially by making an effort: got home and discovered that the furnace wasn't working.
2.
a. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
b. To learn about for the first time in one's experience:

----a scientist did indeed discover that pluto was a dwarf planet.

are you for real. i can't help but sit here and boggle for a while. i'm speechless.

i feel like i'm being tcm'd.

"that's science. we make discoveries" is right up there with "it's called sexy."

ella, i think we're made for each other. but do you have a monster cock?

you have this silly concept of what science is, ella.
anyways, your nice definitions are not supporting what you're saying in any way.