I guess teachers aren’t allowed to teach that it is and that what we learned in school is now officially old school.
steve_savicki
2006.08.24 3:32 pm
Yup. Science is constantly growing and changing. At one point teachers had to stop teaching that the planets revolved around the sun ,not the earth,etc.
kevinblanchard
2006.08.24 4:01 pm
It is still a planet, it is just a dwarf planet not a classical planet. Ceres and Xena (UB-3119) are the other two dwarf planets. I will be teaching all 11 of those planets but making the distinction along with the inner/outer planet distinction later this year 🙂
lanie_lou
2006.08.24 4:21 pm
No need to nit pick. I wasn’t using Planet as a classification. I was using it as a term of title. i.e.- “It’s not a ‘planet’, it’s a ‘dwarf planet'”. But I could see how either would be fine to use. Though I guess your way makes more sense in lingual usuage. Sometimes trying to apply mathamatical logic to languages doesn’t work well 🙂
kevinblanchard
2006.08.24 4:33 pm
I know I just thought you would be the person to appreciate it.
lanie_lou
2006.08.24 6:25 pm
and I do 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
kevinblanchard
2006.08.24 6:30 pm
I missed that latter part.
steve_savicki
2006.08.24 7:32 pm
I’d hope so. They stopped teaching that in schools several hundred years ago 🙂
9 Comments:
I guess teachers aren’t allowed to teach that it is and that what we learned in school is now officially old school.
steve_savicki
3:32 pm
Yup. Science is constantly growing and changing. At one point teachers had to stop teaching that the planets revolved around the sun ,not the earth,etc.
kevinblanchard
4:01 pm
It is still a planet, it is just a dwarf planet not a classical planet. Ceres and Xena (UB-3119) are the other two dwarf planets. I will be teaching all 11 of those planets but making the distinction along with the inner/outer planet distinction later this year 🙂
lanie_lou
4:21 pm
No need to nit pick. I wasn’t using Planet as a classification. I was using it as a term of title. i.e.- “It’s not a ‘planet’, it’s a ‘dwarf planet'”. But I could see how either would be fine to use. Though I guess your way makes more sense in lingual usuage. Sometimes trying to apply mathamatical logic to languages doesn’t work well 🙂
kevinblanchard
4:33 pm
I know I just thought you would be the person to appreciate it.
lanie_lou
6:25 pm
and I do 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
kevinblanchard
6:30 pm
I missed that latter part.
steve_savicki
7:32 pm
I’d hope so. They stopped teaching that in schools several hundred years ago 🙂
kevinblanchard
9:00 pm
You’re old!
luckycate
9:03 pm