CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

It was a planet before there was an actual definition of what a planet was.

Once they finally decided to define what a planet was, Pluto didn't fit the bill.

There are actually bigger rocks in the asteroid belt than pluto, and would fit the bill of being a planet moreso than what pluto does.

So do you change the criteria to fit pluto in......and let in potentially hundreds more? Or do you downgrade Pluto to a 'dwarf planet' so all those plutonites can still feel warm and fuzzy.

As an aside....what is a continent?
I'm sure you know all of the continents, but what is the definition of one? Is there an actual scientific definition of one?

Continents?  I seem to recall that we had a run in about that some time ago 

My oldest brother is an astronomer and he was over the moon when Pluto lost its status as a planet.  I think that his point of view was that it should never have been considered as a planet in the first place.

I haven’t really kept up with the debate but I think that the large asteroid known as Pluto has been reinstated as a planet.  I’m sure that the folk who make these decisions know a hell of a lot more than me and I’m more than happy to accept the results of their analyses.

The same reasoning has me on board with the best scientific analysis of COVID-19; I’ll take Norman Swan’s assessment as being as good as you can get.  At the other end of the scale, Andrew Blot’s ravings are as meaningful as Collingwood and Essendon supporters debating the meaning of life.  Sadly, the state of emergency powers don’t enable charges of sedition to be laid against Blot  >