seth5220 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@VictoryFire88 lol your comment about Sailor Pluto just made my afternoon of studying hard worthwhile. I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and Sailor Pluto is gone.

TheHuMoCa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I agree with Bill but I still miss Pluto

psychomikeUS (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hell yeah. Fuck "Pluto" ice dwarf bitch!

PW4Dummies (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

Sowff (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

Sowff (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

laurele861 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Sailor Pluto must have cried when she heard the news.

queenvamp11 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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?