Bill Nye the Science Guy on Pluto

Bill Nye talks about why Pluto should't be called a planet.

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• Bill
• Nye
• Pluto
• Astronomy
• Planet
• Kuiper
• Belt
• Ice
• Dwarf

[theraineydaze]

the title mislead me to believe that Bill was on the surface of Pluto

[JCperfection]

Why the hell do we have to argue about how he dresses? He's Bill Nye, for crying out loud! If Chuck Norris wore clown shoes, a cowboy hat, and a pink frilly gown in a formal party, people wouldn't give a damn! Case in point: Bill Nye is the Chuck Norris.... of SCIENCE!!!

[psychomikeUS]

hell yeah. Fuck "Pluto" ice dwarf bitch!

[PW4Dummies]

@theraineydaze

He was on Pluto, which is why he agrees that it shouldn't be a planet.

[Sowff]

The 4th moon was discovered in 2011, and will probably be named in August 2012, if not sooner.

[Sowff]

Mr. Nye needs to make an official retraction of some of his more outrageous statements about Pluto. Pluto is not all ice. It is 75% rock. Earth would have a lot of ice, too, if it was that far away. Not sure the %. Pluto meets 2 of 3 current elements of the IAU definition of a planet, and is considered a dwarf planet, not a comet. And, it would still be a dwarf planet if it were as close to the Sun as Mercury. As President of the Planetary Society, you have a responsibility to the truth.

[laurele861]

@sploderdotcom The fourth moon, P4, is a tiny one discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the summer of 2011.

[laurele861]

Pluto should be called a planet. Nye doesn't say that any planet brought close enough to the Sun would develop a tail due to outgassing. Mercury currently has a tail. However, neither Mercury nor Pluto would disintegrate at Mercury's orbit because both are rocky. Pluto is estimated at 75% rock, so calling it an icy body is not exactly correct. Also, Pluto is about 1400 miles in diameter, more than large enough to be rounded by its own gravity, a characteristic of planets, not of asteroids.

[VictoryFire88]

Sailor Pluto must have cried when she heard the news.

[queenvamp11]

This made bill nye seem more..boring? Also: If pluto was considered a planet all this time when our moon CLEARLY is more planetly, then why isn't our moon its own planet?

[sploderdotcom]

@SuperMagnetizer 4 moons? whats the fourth?

[sploderdotcom]

@Deathnotefan97 Also, Earth is the celestial body upon which the definition of the planet was originally built.