The name "Brontosaurus" might be accepted as correct after all.

[B.J.]

Pluto, you're just too small to be a planet even though you have a moon.

Five moons, at least.

As for brontosaurus, that was my favorite dino as a child. Should be interesting to see if it comes back!

 

[Ithekro]

I seem to be out of the loop, when did the Brontosaurus become a nonexistant thing?

 

[iguana_tonante]

The name "thunder lizard" is too good to not be used.

I cannot help but agree with you.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Meanwhile Pluto gets no action on its appeal to be reclassed as a planet again.

 

[PlixTixiplik]

I seem to be out of the loop, when did the Brontosaurus become a nonexistant thing?

In 1903, and it's been fairly consistently thought to be the same as Apatosaurus since (the only exception I see is Romer, 1966 who treated Brontosaurus as a valid name).

 

[Doctorwhovian]

A lot of the old Brontosaurus reconstructions and illustrations were actually based on a fossil that was incorrectly fitted with with that of the Camerasaurus as the Apatosaurus skull was not available until later years. Hence a lot of the older books have it with a short head instead of a more slender/accurate representation.

 

[Ithekro]

I guess it never came up in the early 80s when I was looking. I seem to remember Brontosaurus being in use and no effort being made to correct it.

 

[Random_Spock]

And in my book, Pluto is still a planet!

What about Sedna and Eris and all the others classified the same as Pluto? Do they become planets, too, or is Pluto special just because you learned it was a planet as a child?

At least brontosaurus has a kind of onomatopoeia about it.

Fair point, with a half a point taken away on the second half of the question .

I still view it as such since it's what I'm used to. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. *shrug* No specialness attached.

Hell they're all planets as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Gotta love paleontology. There's a lot of back and forth that goes on behind the scenes that's kind of humorous.

 

[Maurice]

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it appears to be a SINGLE PAPER at this point, hardly a scientific consensus. We'll see where this ends up, but it's not as certain as the headlines paint it. But, then, clickbait.

 

[Metryq]

Any chance they're gonna rename Pluto to Bronto?

That'd rock.

If New Horizons finds brontosaurus remains, maybe they will. Now that would really rock. The mission director will be quoted as crying out, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!"

 

[publiusr]

When the Voyager probe flew past Miranda and the first images came out--I thought "My God--it's been strip-mined."

It looks like Triceratops gets to keep its name as well:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...s-identity-crisis-continues-111952707/?no-ist

 

[Hatshepsut]

Pluto, you're just too small to be a planet even though you have a moon.

Five moons, at least.

Oh, no! We need to demote four of these right away!