Plutoids: a new class of objects beyond Neptune, Astronomy, politics or damage control |
Plutoids: a new class of objects beyond Neptune, Astronomy, politics or damage control |
Jun 12 2008, 09:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
Article on the BBC website: 'Non-planet' Pluto gets new class
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7449735.stm QUOTE Now an IAU committee, meeting in Oslo, has suggested that small, nearly spherical objects orbiting beyond Neptune should carry the "plutoid" tag. It also goes on to say that not everybody is too excited about it: QUOTE "It's just some people in a smoke-filled room who dreamed it up," he told the Associated Press. "Plutoids or haemorrhoids, whatever they call it. This is irrelevant." -------------------- |
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Jun 13 2008, 07:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
I like tto Stephen proposal with the word thingy.But a slight change of idea, I would name all celestial objects as a relation dependency.
An example: The bigest of all celestial objects which is the center of all which we percibe would start with first digit, then the others seconds orbits around the biggest, start with its fews alphanumeric, and so on. An example The center of all celestial objects: big_ban (AA) Then the others galaxies orbits around the big_ban, an example: Milky (N23) (I am not astronomer but I would like to name it as its space coordinate) , then follows the others stars, Sun (S134), then follows others planets, Earth (4) then follows the others satellites, Moon (1) around the planets. The nomenclature would be: AA_N23_S134_4_1 or something alike. Other example, Titan: AA_N23_S134_7_1 With that nomenclature would permit to localize easier where is each celestial object is localized. We don't have to worry with the fight to classify these vast number of celestial objects still not discovered. Also, the future intergalactic travel would be easier where is the source and final destine for its trip. |
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