Should Pluto Be A Planet Essay

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Pluto: Should It Be a Planet Once More? When you were in school, how did you learn your planets? Some just remember it simply by memory; Mercury, Venus, Earth and so forth. Others may remember it by having acronyms such as My Very Excellent Mother Just Made Us Nine Pancakes or My Very Eyes May Just See Upon the Nine Planets. But when the new demotion of Pluto was announced in 2006, it started a whole new controversy: should Pluto be a planet once again or stay a dwarf planet. (Overbye, 2006). Considering its distance from the sun, orbit, and it's size it clearly does not fit the definition of a planet that scientists have created. Because of this, Pluto has remained with the classification of dwarf planet.…show more content…
Even though many think that Pluto should not be a planet, they are not completely against any idea towards it being classified as some sort of planet. For a long time biologist thought that all microbes causing diseases in humans were bacteria and at some point realized that there was another class of microbe more properly described as viruses (Margot, 2006). This is like the controversy between whether Pluto should or should not be a planet. Pluto is not the complete opposite of a planet but more as a category of planets. If there was only one classification of a planet, we would probably have over 50 more additional planets (Inman, 2006). Hopefully, our knowledge of our universe will continue to expand and we will have a clearer view of what to classify a planet. I guess we are going to have to come with a new acronym to remember the planets bye. Because for now, many agree that there should only be 8 planets; Pluto should remain a dwarf planet. PLUTO ESSAY 3 Resources - Inman, M. (2006). Pluto not a planet, astronomers rule. National Geographic News. Retrieved from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/4977721.html
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