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

The entire IAU was invited. Only a few hundred attended. It's not like the community was deliberately shut out.

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

Hurt fails to mention that only 424 members of the IAU voted, leaving over 9,500 members voiceless, and the IAU has not admitted that the vote was problematic. There will be a debate soon about Pluto on teevy. Stay tuned. This debate is far from over.

maklash85 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Maybe science don't consider Pluto as a 9th planet. But for God Pluto still represented 1 of the highest individual in heaven one of the 9 archangel of God. That represented by two statue angels and seven candle stick in the holy tent. anything except the 9 archangels are all just a servant angel of the 9 archangel. The One who has the largest satellite represent the 9th archangel of God and that is pluto.

maklash85 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Maybe science don't consider Pluto as a 9th planet. But for God Pluto still represented 1 of the highest individual in heaven one of the 9 archangel of God. That represented by two statue angels and seven candle stick in the holy tent.

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

It's not my area of expertise, but the estimate I see most often is "a few million years." But since Titan is so small, it would have a hard time maintaining an atmosphere that would be thick enough for humans to breathe once it warms up that much. Other forms of life *could* evolve there, but in evolutionary terms, a few million years is a blink of an eye, and such life probably wouldn't get past the very simple, early stages of evolution before the Sun collapsed.

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

How brief? a couple million years or a few decades? Me and my mate think in the future we should go to Titan and brn the methane to make water and fuel, and with the reduced gravity we can fly ornithopters. Is that possible?

xj2yzz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

pluto is a planet to me.

ZucchiniMusic156 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

well pluto isn't a giant gas planet like jupiter...

Omid45 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Having a moon is not that unlikely. All a moon is, is a piece of object caught by the gravity of a bigger object. Now, how many objects are there in the universe moving around all the time?

FLAME4564 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

um lol probbly cuz since jupiter also has the biggest magnetic field in the whole solar system XD and yet it was only belived that it was a faild star cuz it was not big enough or even hot enough. Yet if Jupiter was bigger and hotter THEN we would be living in a double star system XD.