Friday, May 21, 2010

The Planet Song

I was browsing through the Internet in searching for a theme song for the camp which me and my fellow mates from SJAM KSS were organising and I found this very funny song in you tube. Check it out peeps!

Cuuutte!!~ ;)

And in my time browsing through, I found out that Pluto is no longer consider a planet in the solar system anymore making the total number of planets in our galaxie to be 8 instead of 9. Am I a bit outdated on this? Maybe I am because Pluto was classified as "Dwarf Planets" in August 2006. It was demoted after scientists from around the world come out with a new definition for the term 'planet' at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, in the Czech Republic in 2006. The IAU decides the official names of all celestial bodies.
The tough decision comes after a multiyear search for a scientific definition of the word "planet." The term never had an official meaning before.

According to the new definition, a full-fledged planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity. In addition, a planet has to dominate the neighborhood around its orbit.
Pluto has been demoted because it does not dominate its neighborhood. Charon, its large "moon," is only about half the size of Pluto, while all the true planets are far larger than their moons.
In addition, bodies that dominate their neighborhoods, "sweep up" asteroids, comets, and other debris, clearing a path along their orbits. By contrast, Pluto's orbit is somewhat untidy.

Poor Pluto, already it is so far away from all the other planets, now it not even consider a planet anymore. =(

signing off..

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