{"id":637,"date":"2006-09-06T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2006-09-06T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T20:36:06","slug":"sign-the-pluto-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/sign-the-pluto-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign the Pluto Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Tony Phillips<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html?skipIntro=1\">NASA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a>) has generated a vote and sign the petition webpage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plutopetition.com\/\">PlutoPetition.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0609\/plutopetition.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can vote either <em>pro-planet<\/em> or <em>pro-discrediting-American-astronomers-who-discover-planets<\/em>. As of this writing, Pluto-the-planet is winning.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phillips also observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>IS NEPTUNE A PLANET?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consider this: According to the IAU, for a world to be a planet, it must &#8220;clear the neighborhood around its orbit&#8221; of competing bodies. How does a planet go about cleaning up? Simple. It uses its gravity to gobble up or fling away anything in its vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>This is a problem for Pluto. Pluto&#8217;s &#8220;neighborhood&#8221; is cluttered with innumerable icy asteroid-like bodies called &#8220;Kuiper Belt Objects.&#8221; Pluto&#8217;s gravity is not quite strong enough to get rid of them. Thus, according to the IAU, <strong>Pluto is not a planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! This is a problem for Neptune, too. Pluto itself crosses the orbit of Neptune. So, Neptune has not yet cleaned up its own neighborhood. Does this mean that <strong>Neptune is not a planet<\/strong>? Think about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tony Phillips (NASA, SpaceWeather.com) has generated a vote and sign the petition webpage at PlutoPetition.org You can vote either pro-planet or pro-discrediting-American-astronomers-who-discover-planets. As of this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}