{"id":12393,"date":"2006-08-24T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/pluto-demoted\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T21:36:00","slug":"pluto-demoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/pluto-demoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto Demoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.muledesign.com\/stable\/maybe_welcome_ceres_charon_and_xena.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/pluto_planet.png\" width=\"125\" height=\"47\" alt=\"Pluto is a planet\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/demotepluto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/pluto_demote.png\" width=\"125\" height=\"40\" alt=\"Demote Pluto\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Bad Astronomy Blog<\/i> was one of the first web sites to report that &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau2006.org\/mirror\/www.iau.org\/iau0603\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The <acronym title=\"International Astronomical Union\">IAU<\/acronym> has voted<\/a> on a series of resolutions on what a planet is and what a planet isn\u2019t, and the verdict is&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/08\/24\/breaking-news-pluto-not-a-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pluto is not a planet<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The post also notes that &ldquo;This is a big turnaround from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/08\/15\/congratulations-its-a-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\">initial resolution<\/a>, which would have given our solar system at least 12 planets, and potentially many, many more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I guess this means that we&rsquo;ll have to come up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/English_mnemonics#The_Planets_of_the_Solar_System\" target=\"_blank\">new mnemonic for remembering the <strike>nine<\/strike> eight planets<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you&rsquo;re interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2006\/08\/_small_craters.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Collision Detection<\/i><\/a> happened upon the somewhat surreal <a href=\"http:\/\/planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov\/append6.html\" target=\"_blank\">naming conventions for features on planets and moons in our Solar System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/astronomy\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">astronomy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/space\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/language\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115645486585514454?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Bad Astronomy Blog was one of the first web sites to report that &ldquo;The IAU has voted on a series of resolutions on what a planet is and what a planet isn\u2019t, and the verdict is&hellip; Pluto is not a planet.&rdquo; The post also notes that &ldquo;This is a big turnaround from the initial resolution, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/pluto-demoted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pluto Demoted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}