Pluto Top Ten Contest, Is Pluto a Planet or Is It Not? |
Pluto Top Ten Contest, Is Pluto a Planet or Is It Not? |
Jan 6 2006, 12:29 PM
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Planetary Society press release:
http://www.planetary.org/about/press/relea...t_Not__The.html - Is Pluto a Planet or Is It Not? The Planetary Society Seeks Top Ten Lists --- In honor of the launch of the New Horizons mission, the Society announces a call for the public to speak up and tell us: The Top 10 Reasons Pluto IS a Planet, or The Top 10 Reasons Pluto IS NOT a Planet Even The Planetary Society's own Board of Directors is split, with Chairman Neil deGrasse Tyson wanting to demote Pluto from the planetary ranks and other members of the Board staunchly defending Pluto's status. In the interest of impartiality and public engagement, The Planetary Society is calling for reasons on both sides of the issue. For the next eight days, visitors to the Society's website can share their reasons why Pluto should or should not continue to be ranked as one of the solar system's nine planets. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, January 12, 2006. The final Top 10 Lists will be released prior to the launch of the New Horizons mission. --- http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/topten/ - Pluto Top Ten http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/topten/enter.html - Enter the Contest! -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Jan 16 2006, 08:31 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Weh hey
I love "It doesn't appear to be so inclined. " - That's GENIUS Doug |
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Jan 17 2006, 05:37 AM
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Pluto is not a planet, and I'll tell you why cause “plutonians are teh suck!” (private joke for ATHF fans)
Its to small and to far and if we add it in we have to add in alot of other KBO that including pluto are nothing but oversize comets in badly need of some sun. F the grade school books, the USA school system is already teaching them kids misinformation: why stop at sex ed and evolution lets get astronomy in there to! |
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Jan 17 2006, 08:37 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (exobioquest @ Jan 17 2006, 05:37 AM) Its to small and to far .......already teaching them kids misinformation And not teaching them that it's TOO small and TOO far, not TO The real argument is one that will doubtless cause many a conference-argument for decades, personally, I think Pluto deserves it's title as it 'got there first' so to speak, and then the similar bodies out at that sort of range with that sort of composition should be refered to as Plutonian's or part of the Pluto 'class' of bodies. Doug |
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Jan 17 2006, 02:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
Seems like the term "ice dwarf" is catching on. Though I really like edstrick's "giant cosmic dust bunnies". Think the IAU would go for that?
-------------------- --O'Dave
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