{"id":906,"date":"2006-08-22T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/08\/news-from-prague-what-about-th.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T09:48:00","slug":"news-from-prague-what-about-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/08\/news-from-prague-what-about-th.html","title":{"rendered":"News from Prague &#8211; What about the Plutons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graphics10.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/08\/21\/science\/essay.600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/graphics10.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/08\/21\/science\/essay.600.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As you probably know, 3,000 astronomers are meeting this week in Prague to decide the fate of Pluto and the very solar system as we know it. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/22\/science\/space\/22essa.html?ref=spaceandcosmos\"> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In e-mail messages from Prague, Owen Gingerich, chairman of the union\u2019s Planet Definition Committee, said, \u201cIt was only accidental that Pluto remained a planet\u201d in their proposal. Nor had they tried to calculate how many new planets would result.<\/p>\n<p>Today the group will be offering a new proposal, taking orbital dynamics as well as roundness into account. \u201cThe eight classical planets will still be central to the meaning of planet, and the other round nonsatellite objects will all be dwarf planets,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut there will still be a special category for which Pluto is the prototype.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So it&#8217;s still up in the air whether the astronomical importance of these bodies will change, and if they do, how that change will be made and what the astrological significance will be.   Astronomers are sharply divided on whether or not Pluto should remain a planet, and many feel that the retention of Pluto in the planetary definition would open the door to hundreds and possibly thousands of other planets and other objects.<\/p>\n<p>The International Astronomers Union is set to vote on Thursday just after the New Moon in Virgo which is exceedingly appropriate since Virgo loves classification and pigeonholing objects into their appropriate category.  Meanwhile, manyVedic astrologers are unfazed by this turn of events since they typically don&#8217;t work with any of the planets beyond Saturn anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, 3,000 astronomers are meeting this week in Prague to decide the fate of Pluto and the very solar system as we know it. 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