Or if you prefer to call it,
Shine's Horny Observation Of Running Girls
I have been wanting to post this for a while, since Jaspreet dared me, but I did not really want to, until now.
Why? Cause I feel like it.
Anyways, I was supposed to be studying Econs at that time, but as usual, my head wanders.
Why? Cause of this one picture of a girl running in the textbook.
And as usual,
Big tit, white girl + my mind = sex
So yeap, as usual, today’s rant job is primarily on sex.
But sex is a major topic, and I really don’t wanna share opinions regarding different types of sex, or sex in general.
So, to narrow down, I am gonna talk about the picture alone.
So yea, the topic is,
The Analysis Of The Female Running Form
Based on observations during sports practice back in high school, movies, escaping victims of rape, bla bla, I have come to train myself to observe the different ways in which a girl run.
Guys are definitely less worth noting, cause they are divided into three very obvious groups:
a) They run like guys
b) They run like girls
c) They run like Jaspreet (remember the angel hop, people? E-mail me for more info)
Lets start with the way that girls like the one I saw in the picture run. For easy categorization, I shall label this form as
The Flip-Flop
The reason why I call this style The Flip-Flop is because of the motion of their breasts, which I shall illustrate later.
You normally see this when girls go jogging, and much more noticeably, when they have an iPod dangling on their arms.
Regarding the posture of the run, the way to distinguish this way of running from the others which I am gonna talk about is the oscillation of the tits.
Observe the following diagram. Try to imagine the girl actually running.
As depicted by the arrows, we can clearly see that one breast always go in the opposite direction of the other. And as such, its pretty obvious that this motion is balanced, as we have momentum both upwards and downwards due to the chest, and hence, this is a very common, and intuitive way in which girls run when they are jogging, as it maintains a proper posture.
But this method of running is also VERY risky, as the constant opposing motion of breasts may be a cause of dislocation from the bra. Hence, it is highly advisable that while running like this, thy shalt not wear push up bras. Wear, simple tight ones (unless you want to make me happy).
Or just wear those ugly rubbery aerobic shirts.
Next,
The Pretzel aka The Infinite Loop
This style of running is most commonly seen in movies where the girl actually run for real. It is also the method of running commonly applied when a girl is running away from a rapist (eg. the scene in that softcore porn movie with Vivian Hsu in it, running away from some asshole who dry humped her) or when they are running away from Jasp... nothing.
Regarding the distinction of it compared to the others, observe the following picture.
First and foremost, notice that the picture seems as if the girl is jogging. But don't you notice how un-natural it is?
That's because she is running using The Pretzel aka The Infinite Loop.
Why do I name them so?
Obviously, from the oscillation of the tits.
Imagine the girl running, again.
Notice that the center of the chest of the girl will move in the motion described by the black arrow.
Effectively, the entire set of jugs (the blue circle) will then move accordingly to suit the motion, which is shaped like a pretzel, OR the infinite symbol, hence the name.
I have considered the probability that the motion may not be like a pretzel, but more of like side to side, like your eyes when you shake your head, but then I realize that THAT is a different category, which I shall describe later.
Now, now, I sense that people may argue with me regarding the similarities between The Flip-Flop and The Pretzel, but to prove my point, notice the positions of the hands in both the pictures above.
Realize that the angle of which the forearm makes with the horizontal plane is different, in which The Flip-Flop is obviously higher than The Pretzel. This IS significant, as the movements of the arms is, in a way, related to the motion of the tits. I know nothing about the muscles in the chest, but there is a reason why their tits AND arms move differently.
Now, onto the next one,
The Manual Transmission
This is a very very unique form of running, as the only instances which I have observed them to happen was in high school, during sports practice when the girls sprint the 100m thingy.
And as such, I apologize that I have no picture of them, unless someone can send me a video of sports practice. But fear not, as I have a replacement picture.
The motion for this one is considerably difficult to describe. But imagine the girl above running, and the center of her tits move in the motion from point 1 to 4, then from 3 to 2, then repeat.
Yeap, you guessed it, like a gear stick in a manual car, hence, The Manual Transmission.
NO! It is NOT oscillating like The Pretzel nor The Flip-Flop!
The motions are quite jagged and not as graceful. It seems as if their tits are gonna jump out of their orbits pretty soon and fly across the field.
Another feature of this form of running is that the hands of the people tends to move parallel to each other, like swatting flies with both hands to the side of the other end (???)
As I said, this is hard to describe, they need to be seen to be appreciated (repeat: appreciated, the female form is an art).
Another not-so obvious feature is that their hair tends to swing like the image as well.
For the previous motions, the hair either moves up and down, or gracefully swing from side to side.
For The Manual Transmission, it looks like a broom. Literally. Like the picture.
This form of running is very common among 'little' girls. No, not that they don't have tits, its more like they are running like kids.
And finally, one of the MOST common in Malaysia, is
The Hormonally Deficit
Yeap. The hormonally deficit. This is pretty easy to describe. Observe the following picture.
For this motion, the girl runs like a guy. Hence, The Hormonally Deficit.
You may be surprised as to why I did not name it based on the motion of the oh-so-godly tits.
Simple.
They don't have any.
They lack the hormones.
The Hormonally Deficit.
Girls who run like this have their breasts (or whatever that's left in between their arms) moving left and right. Like a guy.
I feel a very bad aftertaste in my mouth describing this right now. Its like explaining how an 8 year old boy runs.
Girls who normally run like this are either motherfucking thin, or girls who are actually in running competitions. Or girls who are hormonally deficit.
There, that's about it. If anyone care to remind me of ones I missed, or if there are any arguments, please do reply. But of course, I expect diagrammatic and constructive proof. Go ahead and burn me, bra-tearing feminists.
The images are copied and pasted from Google images, and modified with Microsoft Paint.
I can't take 8 megapixel pictures and use Photoshop for nuts.
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;;No, don't bother to clean your glasses, you did not read the title wrongly. I initially did not want to post this, but Jaspreet insists... Sorry, its a little longer than what I would normally post... Feel free to ignore...
Once again, I find myself blindly surfing the Internet. And once again, fate leads me to Adrina's blog. She is a friend of mine. Maybe cause her blog always provokes me to type something, or maybe cause my finger itchy.
Anyways, before I start getting to the meat, I just want to say... CLAYMORE IS A F**KING COOL MANGA/ANIME AND EVERYONE SHOULD DITCH NARUTO/BLEACH/WTV AND GO READ IT!!!
Ok, anyways, I have decided to waste my time typing a response to the discussion put forth by Adrina, which is, What is the Purpose of Armpit hair? Here is a portion of her post, for those too lazy to click and wait for the page to load.
I'd like to think that everything in this world is created for a purpose. From the important stuff like oxygen, trees and water to the more trivial ones like the birds and the bees (pun intended).
Heck, I can even think of the purpose of wrinkles. Women with wrinkles symbolize old age, that they are not as fertile as the wrinklesless and therefore, potential mates would not be easily attracted to them.
But, why the hell do we have armpit hair?? I would understand if it guys we're talking about; they would claim that armpit hair makes them look more macho and manly. But what about us girls? We are always trying to get rid of these fugly unwanted hair. Some of those who are lucky may find that they do not have it. But most of us do as soon as we reach puberty!!
It makes us uglier, but not ugly enough to scare of rapists. If it's a little bit uglier, we can use it to scare them (the potential rapists) off. Hehe, imagine someone trying to rape you and all you're trying to do is to open your arms wide enough to show him your armpit hair. And once visible, the rapist would cover his eyes with his hands because the ugliness is hurting his eyeballs. That's when you use the opportunity to kick him in the nuts and run away.
But no! Armpit hair has to be of of medium ugliness. It's like God (assuming that there is one) was halfway creating mankind and something more important cropped up that he left us with that pile of unwanted fugly hair.
Or maybe there is use for armpit hair after all. Does anyone know? Can you enlighten me? If not I will continue to stand by my notion that armpit hair is useless and does not deserve its place in this world. This world is already so saturated with unwanted waste and pollution substances that we do not need any more useless things.
As an overview, lets just look at the points put forth by Adrina. She claims that its apparently useless to girls, as they make them fugly, and can potentially scare off rapists with them. And for the guys, its supposedly a macho sex symbol or something.
Lets take a look at the 'useless' aspect. To first confirm if its useless or not, we must hence first make sure that is it useful or not. To see if the armpit hair is useful or not, we must first have a general idea on the the purpose of hair.
As we all know, and learned from Science Form 3, hair on the skin is meant to keep us warm, due to the accumulation of air space between them, which is a heat insulator and so prevents lose of heat. Hence, it is necessary to have hair on the head/chest/arms/legs, to reduce this lose.
Now, taking into account the armpit, it is very evident that that location is a MAJOR source of heat lose/ contains a lot of blood vessels. Why? Cause it sweats a LOT. Even when we walk around, and our head haven't start sweating, already our armpits are sweating. Hence, it is therefore necessary to have hair on the armpit to prevent this lose. To further reinforce my point, lets take the head as an example. Its a major heat sink, as our brain is there, and it works 24/7 and looses more heat than any part of the body, its only obvious that it is also the part of our entire body that is most concentrated in hair.
Ok, that sounds contradictory, but what I mean is that the armpit loses lots of heat, cause there is lots of blood there, and it sweats to cool it down, but the hair is there to prevent excessive lose, IF it is cold. Capiche?
Hence, I proved my point that armpit hairs are first and foremost, NOT useless, as it serves a purpose, no matter how obscure it is. Ya, we don't really need hair on our legs as well (some people don't have them) and in Malaysia, we don't even need hair at all since we don't exactly need to conserve heat, its a f**king natural oven here. But heck, its there, for a reason.
Some of you may rebut that instead of helping to conserve heat, they actually INDUCE the lose of heat, due to friction when running, walking, swinging your hand and stuff. Yes, I agree that marathon runners DO shave their armpit hairs to do so, but if you ask me, unless you enjoy wearing a f**king leotard when running/walking/shopping, or you walk with your hand sticking to your torso like R2D2, I see no reason why they should do so.
Next, regarding the concept of it being fugly to women and macho to men, I think that its all a matter of point of view, or personal preference, rather than a widely accepted opinion. First off, I don't think its macho on men. If that is so, every female should be clinging to the mamak stall uncle near my place who also incidentally have a ton of chest hair, rather than the near hairless Keanu Reeves.
Besides that, ya, its not exactly sexually attractive on the girls, but you can say the exact same thing about pubic hair. Go here (don't click if you are underaged or easily offended or is a 'yer, pr0n is disgustiiing...' b*tch/d*ck) and you can see tons of westerners complaining about pubic hair in their asian pr0n clips. Apparently, to them, its disgusting. But we don't exactly hear girls HERE complaining about their pubic hair, or questioning if they should shave it or not, do we? Yes, they do question those in the states, watch American Pie 3...
So once more, no, this is NOT to rebut Adrina's blog, but I just think I should respond regarding the uselessness of armpit hair, and also regarding the subjective unattractiveness of them. OMG, don't get me wrong, armpit hairs do NOT turn me on...
kk ciao
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;;I must say that this blog is still in good shape thanks to our dedicated bloggers here. I have been reluctant to post here, I don't know why. All I know is that when I log into blogger.com, I'd lose my inspiration to write. Suddenly, the atmosphere tense up.
This time, I thought of writing about coffee since I am working on that topic for my Human Awareness Essay. I still haven't figure out whether coffee is a good thing or is it the other way? How many of you over here drinks coffee? If so, what made you drink coffee? The only time when I drink coffee was when I was in Form 2 and Form 3. That was only because my teacher had us to prepare meals for Kemahiran Hidup. Other than that, I'd avoid coffee by all means.
Coffee, for one thing sure helps one to be alert. What fascinated me was the mechanism of how it can make one be alert. You see, in our brain, there is something called adenosine (not so sure if it is a hormone or something) but that is what makes us sleepy when it binds to the receptor site. The shape of the caffeine is similar to the shape of the adenosine, therefore, caffeine is complementary to the receptor site. When caffeine binds to the receptor site, the reactions which takes place there is the total opposite of adenosine's. It will cause stimulation and make us alert.
Coffee can reduce the risk of getting Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease and could possibly cure Type 2 Diabetes. I don't know if it is true. Coffee can also cause one to have migraine and increase the cholestrol level. So, what do you think? Is coffee beneficial or detrimental to human health? Should coffee consumption be encouraged at a young age? How much caffeine is too much of caffeine? What other alternatives would you ask them to drink that is also healthy to the human body? Herbal tea?
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;;I found this on Boing Boing. The kiasu Singaporeans are building this crazy condominium with four towers seemingly hanging off the sides of another, central tower. The 153 meter tall condominium will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road, Singapore’s most famous street. With 20,000m² of built floor area, the building will provide 68 high-end apartment units with panoramic views. Due to the highly regulated building environment in Singapore, developers are forced to get creative when they want to cram as many apartment units as possible in one building. The design strategically maneuvers within the highly regulated building environment to maximize the fullest potential of the site. I'll want to live in such a future icon. To me Singaporean engineers and architects being one of the best in the world and building in a very strict environment will construct the safest of structures in the world. Want to move into that insane condominium once it's finished?
~multum in parvo~
P.S: On this blog, stupid and ignorant commenters asked whether the building is earthquake proof. Are there earthquakes in Singapore or Malaysia? That blogger also doesn't understand that the laws of physics are "divine".
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Meet Toadzilla the toy dog sized toad. This monster of a cane toad was found in Northern Australia. The creature measured 20.5cm (8 inches) and weighed 861g (1.9lb). I would hate to meet his big sister! Click here for a bigger image.
~multum in parvo~
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Something is very, very wrong with some animals. We had the predatory squirrels, now we have a sadistic cow calf. This report from India details about a cow named Lal, which eats chickens. This bizarre case started of when Lal's owner, Ghosh noticed his chickens going missing suspecting that they were taken by cows."We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive," Ghosh told Reuters by phone from Chandpur village, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of Kolkata.
The family decided to stand guard at night on Monday at the cow shed which also served as a hen coop, after 48 chickens went missing in a month.
"Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat," Gour Ghosh, his brother, said.
Local television pictures showed the cow grabbing and eating a chicken in seconds and a vet confirmed the case.
About 55 million years ago hoofed (ungulate) predators started to appear. They ran after their prey like today's horses and killed them with their jaws. These creatures are now extinct. Maybe Lal is the start of a new species of predatory ungulates. Some people however suspect he was a tiger in his past life. However, I would argue he was a human in his previous life. Well, humans surely enjoy eating chickens more than tigers.
Holy cow!
~multum in parvo~
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Picture a squirrel. It's rather benign and at times cute. Nobody would think squirrels could do any harm. Unfortunately, in Russia squirrels are little monsters.
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
It was reported that the squirrels scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh. Apparently a pine cone shortage has led squirrels to turn to other sources of food. The report also suggests the dog was a big one and it was literally gutted by squirrels. Previously in the same area it was reported chipmunks were terrorising cats.
Whatever it is a herbivore turning predator is certainly chilling. Even more spine tingling is the fact that prey is turning on predator. Humans are the same size as large dogs, so people better fear squirrels. It seems that when times are bad anything goes. The squirrels also teach us that teamwork will always pays. Are this the signs of the evolution of a predatory squirrel from hell?
Scientists however are skeptical of the story but haven't discounted it totally. Who has more credibility, three eyewitnesses or a scientist working in different location?
~multum in parvo~
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I Cannot Be Cured!! Let's Celebrate!! Revisited
6 mad rant(s) » Add your own! RANDTed: Albert at 8:33:00 AM
This is an old post on Maelstrom that has to be shared on RANDTS.
Henry requested me to post about my disease. Well I won't be writing very specific details about my disease because I will copying it lock, stock and barrel if I do but I will give links to sites that explain my conditions. Furthermore, I'm not authority on my disease so it is better for you all to read links.
Well, I suffer from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) a muscle wasting disease that is caused by a genetic mutation. DMD is hereditary and has absolutely no cure. It affects 1 in 3000 boys and we have a life expectancy of around 21. Glory and death!
Well slowly DMD sufferers get weaker and weaker and will finally be only able to make practical their wrist, fingers, neck and head. Furthermore, our respiratory system and heart are also affected by muscle wasting. (Causing all sorts of problems that need to be treated.) Death is usually caused by suffocation or heart failure. Even brushing my teeth or eating an apple may prove fatal (isolated cases).
For a pictorial guide to my disease click here. For an encyclopedia article about DMD click here.
I hope nobody had their daylights scared out of them by this post. ^_^
All questions about me and DMD are welcomed in fact you all should ask about me. Don't worry about offending me because I'm willing to share my experiences. My skin is as thick as crocodile hide. Hahahaha. Bring in the questions as comments.
Cheers!!!!
~multum in parvo~
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;;Apparently there is an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Even if you think the only life in the universe is on Earth, we're still not alone. In addition to the other planets and moons in our solar system, there are countless tons of space dust, millions of meteors, asteroids, comets and various types and sizes of debris (including the trash we've left up there ourselves) flying around at incredible speeds and in all sorts of orbits. Earth gets hit by stuff every day -- it just doesn't show up on the common man's radar because the impact isn't newsworthy. Space dust doesn't hurt us. Most large asteroids that hit Earth are the size of a basketball by the time they make it through the burning conditions of Earth's atmosphere, and those hit about once a week. It's pretty much just the astronomers that notice. It would take something massive -- space-terms massive -- to make the rest of us notice. And the last time the rest of us really noticed was in 1908, when an asteroid about the size of a football field exploded in Earth's atmosphere with the force of a 15-megaton bomb, leveling an 800 square-mile (2,000-sq-km) area of Siberia. The A-bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima had a 15-kiloton yield.
So imagine the furrowed brows when NASA announced that it was expanding its Near Earth Object Program, which identifies and tracks asteroids, and the European Space Agency is launching a mission to test a potential asteroid-deflection method. As it turns out, statistically speaking, an asteroid the size of a football field should hit Earth about every hundred years. So -- statistically speaking -- we're due. But the asteroid that has scientists huddled together, holding conferences and releasing carefully worded statements is at least twice the size of a football field, and "nuke it" is actually being whispered as a last resort. It's called Apophis, and it's about 250 meters across. The 45-million-ton rock is orbiting the Sun at 28,000 miles per hour (45,000 kph). If it hits Earth, it could easily level a large city.
According to all sources, the chances of it hitting are slim, about one in 45,000, and getting slimmer. In 2005, scientists calculated that Apophis had a one in 5,500 chance of colliding with Earth, and they predict that the chance of a hit will continue to decrease. Using calculations based on the relative positions of Earth and Apophis in 2007, the asteroid will be within 24,000 miles (39,000 km) of Earth in 2029. That's very, very close, much closer to Earth than the moon is, and we'll be able to see it with the naked eye in both day and night-time. But that's not the close call astronomers are worried about. It could come even closer to Earth in 2036, and there are some algorithms that predict a collision, but most experts say it won't hit us. Still, preparations are underway.
The idea is to plan early for the best avoidance strategy. With 20 years to go, we could probably make sure Apophis won't hit us even if it wants to. Most scientists think that blowing it up with a nuclear bomb is a bad idea -- that we'd just end up with a bunch of large asteroids hitting Earth instead of one really large one. Others says if we blow it up early enough, there would be enough time for the trajectory of the pieces to shift out of the danger zone. At the moment, though, the method of choice for saving Earth from Apophis is deflection.
There are a few big ideas out there. One has several spacecraft landing on Apophis, drilling through the surface and pumping out what's inside. NASA has actually done something like this successfully with its Deep Impact mission, which crashed an impactor into a comet with the purpose of revealing the comet's composition. With Apophis, the point would be to pump the material out into space with enough force to push Apophis in the opposite direction, throwing it off course. Scientists are also talking about sending a spacecraft into the asteroid's orbit to fly next to it. This "gravity tractor" spaceship would essentially alter the gravity equation that keeps Apophis on its path, pulling on the asteroid until its position no longer threatens Earth. But according to Donald Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Project, the simplest way to deflect Apophis is to send a spacecraft up there to just slam into it, knocking it out of the way.
Forty-five million tons of speeding asteroid aside, it could be that all the fuss about Apophis is about something at once both more and less threatening. NASA estimates that there are 100,000 asteroids orbiting dangerously close to Earth right now that are big enough to cause a problem, and the agency is only tracking 4,000 of them. We may need to solidify a plan of attack. On the other hand, there are 100,000 asteroids orbiting dangerously close to Earth, right now. And right now. And ... right now. =)
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Guess what creature this is?
Discovered only about four years ago in India, the Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is a “chubby, seven-centimeter-long, purple amphibian with a pointy snout.” It was found hopping around in the Western Ghats, a range of hills in western India.
Scientists have given it the name Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, from the Sanskrit word for nose (nasika); batrachus, meaning frog; and Sahyadri, the name for its mountain home.
For those supporting evolution know that scientists who describe it in the journal Nature, the frog is a beautiful find because of what it tells them about Earth history. It is an important discovery because it tells us something about the early evolution of advanced frogs that we would not know otherwise because there are no fossil records from this lineage.
The purple frog is what is known as a living fossil.Its head appears too small for its body and it looks more like a squat, grumpy blob than a living creature.
~multum in parvo~
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Dolphins are considered very intelligent creatures. I think killing them in a barbaric fashion is just sick. If people want to eat dolphins they should find a more humane way to kill them. Do these barbarians need to hack them to death? Do these people have a sadism fetish? Why no action is taken by the Japanese authorities? Are you people too arrogant?
Bye
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I have to share this piece of news. Just today a giant sinkhole swallowed dozens of homes and killed two people in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The sinkhole is said to be 100m deep and 40m wide. Definitely a hole of monstrous proportions. Here are some pictures of the HOLE from this web page.
Try bungee jumping down this sinkhole.
Top view of the sinkhole.
Scary hole.
Bye for now
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OK, I quote from Joe: "The cheese is old!" Fine, I know it, but I think this is worth mentioning, even now, although it is an old issue.
Let me ask the question: How many planets are there in the Solar System? Do you need some time to think about it? OK, I'll give you ten seconds. Done? Did you just say nine?
Fair enough, nine planets. How do we know that? Well, there's Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. That's magnificent! But wait! It's time to scratch one out of the list. So which one? Earth? Jupiter? The beautiful Saturn? The Sun? No! It's Pluto.
So now, Pluto is not considered as a planet anymore, and we end up having only eight planets in the Solar System. The most baffling question is perhaps, "WHY? I was taught by my teachers and books that there are NINE planets altogether! How can there be eight now? It hasn't exploded, has it?" Of course it's still there, still rotating on its axis and revolving around the sun.
So, why is it now not a planet? What made International Astronomical Union officially declare that Pluto is now just a "rock" (no, they didn't name it a rock)? And now that it isn't a planet anymore, what is it officially known as?
A dwarf planet.
Want to laugh? Go ahead.
Though it might all sound absurd, yet there is some truth in saying that Pluto isn't really a planet. Here is what had happened.
The International Astronomical Union had a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic where they finally agreed on the specific definition of a planet, which called for Pluto being stripped off of its planetary status. It is the same definition which NASA has also agreed upon.
So, what exactly is a planet? Well, the International Astronomical Union now defines planet using three traits:
- It must orbit the sun (duh!).
- It must be massive enough that its own gravity is able to pull it into a nearly round shape.
- It must be dominant enough to clear away objects in its neighbourhood.
So, what would categorise certain celestial bodies as dwarf planets? Simple. A dwarf planet is defined only by Traits 1 and 2. But moons don't count as dwarf planet, though they do orbit the sun, too; they also orbit the planets.
Some of us, if not all, would have known about the most recent discovery of another space body which is even farther away from Pluto, called 2003 UB313 (nicknamed Xena). It is bigger than Pluto, and this is the reason to why the International Astronomical Union decided to finalise about what constitutes a planet.
Even before Xena was discovered, there had been debates in 1930 when Pluto was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. They couldn't tell if it was really a planet because of its sheer small size, its distance and also its odd orbit. Many hesitated to decide whether it was a planet or just ice.
Now that the International Astronomical Union has sealed the fate of Pluto, we shall now abide by the eight-planet rule. However, not many countries are really accepting this new rule. If I am not mistaken, Cambodian astronomers are still keeping the nine-planet rule which includes Pluto as a planet.
Now that it is officially an eight-planet Solar System, have our textbooks made the correction?
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