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IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids"

Posted by timothy on from the once-and-for-all-or-maybe-not dept.

Kligat writes "The International Astronomical Union has decided that Pluto and Eris should be classified as "plutoids," alongside their 2006 classification as dwarf planets. Under the definition, the self-gravity of a plutoid is enough for it to achieve a near-spherical shape, but not enough for it to clear its orbit of its rocky neighbors, and the plutoid orbits the Sun beyond Neptune." Reader FiReaNGeL links to a similar story at e! Science News.

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  1. WTF is Eris? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Last I heard, it was some sort of sock puppet, whatever the heck that means.

  2. Re:Plutoids? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    My uncle had a problem with his plutoids, and he had to sit on a big doughnut and use lots of ointment. No, you half-baked fuckwit, you threw that one away. WTF are "plutoids"?

    You're meant to say something about "assteroids around uranus".

    / Knows that there aren't any asteroids near Uranus
    // Knows that this isn't Fark
    /// Doesn't care about either :-P
  3. Re:Calimero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone knows that Pluto was only considered a planet because it was the only one discovered by Americans.

  4. Fuck the power! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pluto is a Planet bitches!

    lameness filter my ass.

    Abiraami Andhaathi

    Sri:

                    The accompanying file contains the poems composed by Abiraami
    Battar. The 100 poems praise the Goddess Abiraami.

                    To my knowledge, the story goes like this:

                    Abirami Battar was enjoying with his immersed thoughts about the
    praise of the Goddess Abirami. Someone approached him and asked him what
    the day it was. Without realising the actual day as a New Moon Day, Abirami
    Battar mentioned to others that the day was a Full Moon Day. Every one
    laughed at him. He was brought before the King. When King repeated the
    question, he still replied the same answer as Full Moon day. The King went
    angry and ordered to burn him alive if his words (i.e., Full Moon Day)
    fail. He was put to test from a hanging platform with lots of fire
    underneath. Abirami Battar realised his statement and put the blame on
    Goddess. He said to her that I made this mistake only because of you as
    I was immersed in your thoughts. He started singing about the Goddess
    Abiraami in 100 slokas, so beutifully sung. The songs come under a class
    of Tamil poetry called "Andhaathi". This means, the next poem should start
    with the ending from the previous one. One should be able to appreciate the
    talents and God's grace in Abiraami Battar to sing all the 100 songs in
    one night. The end of the story goes like this:

    Goddess Abirami pleased and appeared (kaakshi) before him and thrown her
    ear-ring (kundalam) in to the sky which enlightened the whole sky like a
    full bright moon (I am not sure, but I think, this event happened
    when he was singing songs around 65-70). Everyone worshiped the Goddess
    and her majestic powers. The king requested his apologies to Abiraami
    Battar.