New Horizons phones home

Re:New Horizons phones home by multibear on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:06PM (#9889322)

'"With this mission, we have visited every single planet in the Solar System," said Nasa's administrator Charles Bolden.'

Uhhhhhhh... Should somebody tell him?

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Re:New Horizons phones home by Thorondor on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:35PM (#9889393)

> Should somebody tell him?

Bolden says he still considers Pluto a planet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11739763/Pluto...

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Re:New Horizons phones home by supermatt on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:26AM (#9890290)

Considering the definition of a plutoid is effectively "a planet further away than neptune", I'm inclined to shun the plutoists and agree with him.

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Re:New Horizons phones home by lmm on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @05:10AM (#9890389)

Ceres was robbed of planetary status before it was cool.

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Re:New Horizons phones home by valarauca1 on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:43AM (#9890785)

This isn't talked about more often but its kinda funny. During roughly the American Revolution there were 10 planets.

Neptune/Pluto weren't yet discovered. Instead we had Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, George (Uranus), Ceres, Vesta, and several other minor asteroids.

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Re:New Horizons phones home by supermatt on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:58PM (#9894814)

Wow. So many downvotes. You guys must really hate pluto. Fyi. Definition is from iau. Earth would also fall under same criteria if it was further than neptune...

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Re:New Horizons phones home by supermatt on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:02AM (#9895785)

Anyone care to explain the downvotes? Are you disagreeing with what I'm saying? This place is more like reddit every day.

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Re:New Horizons phones home by breitling on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:16PM (#9889353)

I don't follow...have we not visited all the planets? Perhaps he means we have flown past them all?

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Re:New Horizons phones home by mercurialshark on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:18PM (#9889358)

Pluto = dwarf planet, so it's irrelevant to statement. Also, we certainly haven't visited all dwarf planets.

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Re:New Horizons phones home by electic on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:36PM (#9889395)

The probe was launched before Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet. Either way, this is an immense achievement in both will and engineering.

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