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 14 2008, 06:28 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...Stu, that's from a now-defunct US cartoon series called "Animaniacs"; good stuff. Executive producer was Steven Spielberg (gee, why feature space stuff considering he's on the TPS board, eh? ), and it was an attempt to recapture some of the magic of the '30s-'50s Warner Brothers cartoons.
Think there's a UK connection here, too. That song sure sounds a lot like another tune I heard in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and that movie explained things as adequately as I've ever needed... EDIT: Well, oDoug was all over it already! Animaniacs is actually great fun for young & old; my daughter was a big fan, and she & I would watch them together. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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