Demoted as a planet, Pluto is still a fascinating object surrounded in mystery. And it was NOT named after the dog! More films at www.sixtysymbols.com
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20Apr
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April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Dear scientists of Earth, your mom though I was big enough.
Sincerely Pluto
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
The Greek story is that Dionysis went East to discover wine, possibly to Shrraz.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@zealotkill Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld? Pluto (who is the equivalent of the Greek god Hades). You obviously have no understanding of Roman mythology. While the deities had greek equivalents, the names are still of the Roman gods… Venetia Burney herself suggested the name Pluto because of her interesting in ROMAN mythology..
seriously, are you just trolling?
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@zealotkill Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld? Pluto (who is the equivalent of the Greek god Hades). You obviously have no understanding of Roman mythology. While the deities had greek equivalents, the names are still of the Roman gods… Venetia Burney herself suggested the name Pluto because of her interest in ROMAN mythology..
seriously, are you just trolling?
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Pluto is a hipster.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@Elvenheim PLUTO(DIS, this is the roman name);one of the twelve olympian gods,sun of KRONOS(saturn) and REA,brother of DIAS(jupiter) and POSEIDON(neptune).God of the dead and their shadows.he was the kidnaper of PERSEFONY,(daughter of DHMHTRA).he also had the following names;HADES(????),HEDONEYS(????????),SCOTIOS(???????),PERIKLYMENOS(????????????),SARAPIS(???????),EYVOULES(?????????)HISODAITE(?????????).the name HADES wasn’t only one of the names of PLUTO but one of the names for the underworld
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@nektaga Sorry, but Pluto was the roman God of the Underworld. The Greek’s God was called Hadès.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Pluto demoted this is clearly a case of social injustice.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
PLUTO is not the roman god of the underworld but the greek god of the underwold,charon was the boatman of styx river and his job was to transport with his boat the dead to the underworld
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
She’s very nice looking. Naturally.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@tommytowne Thats like saying midges aren’t humans.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@sbrenn
ok lets leave it to that. All i was saying is that the the Greek name is the name heavily remember by the public as the origin of the planetary names .
I aint saying that Greek gods dont have predecessors …course they do … its in human nature to do such things.
Cheers !
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@zealotkill
That’s all fine and good, but Jupiter is not called Zeus. Venus is not called Aphrodite etc.
All Gods have predecessors, even Christian ones.
I think you would find that even Zeus had a Sumerian daddy…
But let’s leave it at “They chose the Roman names” for the planets. You can’t argue that 🙂
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@sbrenn
m8 get your facts staight … i do know my own mythology and my own 12 ancient olympic gods. google some more … Romans and the Roman empire adopted the greek gods as the roman empire conquered the Greeks in 146 bc.
The name u mentioned above are all names of Greek gods as changes by Romans.
For ex, Jupiter is Zeus ,Venus is Afrodite ,Mercury is Hermis and Neptun is Posidon .
Wiki some more 🙂
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@zealotkill
Jupiter, Saturn, Mercurius, Venus and Neptune are all names of Roman Gods. Just Uranus is Greek.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Very nice series but again a correction :
Pluto was named after the Greek god “?????????” (Plutonas) who is another name of the god Hades; god of the underworld.
And all Planetary names ,expect 1-2 moons of Uranus, come from Greek mythology not Roman
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
I just watched the entire planets playlist, an hour give or take a few minutes, it’s 2:40AM and i’m still intrigued. Brilliant little series.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Isn’t it “shar-on”?
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
for me this works fine…
its totally logical and since we are still discovering other pluto-like objects in the kuiper belt, it’s necessary to rethink pluto’s “status”, else we would have about 15 planets or so (dunno the exact number of already discovered pluto-like objects)
so pluto is now a dwarf planet along with those other objects and, funny enough, the biggest asteriod in our solarsystem called ceres…
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
in 2005 astronomers discovered another celestial body even farther out than pluto that is even bigger than pluto – they called it eris.
since that conference of the IAU, celestial bodies need to meet 3 requirements to be called planets:
1. the body must orbit a star (and mustn’t be a star or moon)
2. the body must have enough mass for gravity to form it roughly spherical
3. the body must have cleared its orbit of any other objects
for pluto the first 2 apply, the third one not.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@iSynOSX
There are also smaller objects that have moons orbiting them. There is one asteroid (I had to look up the name), it’s called Ida and its moon is called Dactyl. The length of Ida is only about 54 km. The question is, should we consider that one a planet too because it has a moon? I guess it’s sort of a matter of preference how to classify things. But there are other reasons why astronomers choose to classify things as dwarf planets, etc.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@Ormaaj let me use your own words to answer that, “Almost the same size” well if it is ALMOST the same size that would mean that it is still SMALLER. Which one is the planet and which is the moon? refer to previous answer. and I was unaware that we had masses orbiting the same star we do that have moons orbiting around it, I always assumed that was called a PLANET.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
@iSynOSX What happens when the moon is almost the same size as the planet? Which is the moon? And anyway, if you took every object out there with the characteristics of Pluto and called it a planet, we’d have hundreds or thousands of things called planets with no separate classification for the obviously different things that are actually planets.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Pluto will always be a Planet to me, I’m sorry but it has moons…ITS A PLANET.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Tombaugh was an amateur astronomer and the professionals have never gotten over it.