"Pluto is dead" - Mike Brown, It's official |
"Pluto is dead" - Mike Brown, It's official |
Aug 24 2006, 01:58 PM
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Aug 28 2006, 07:13 PM
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He even said that there is every chance we will find something the size of Mars or even Earth..but we'll have to call it a dwarf planet.
That's just astonishingly short sighted. Doug |
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Aug 28 2006, 07:26 PM
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He even said that there is every chance we will find something the size of Mars or even Earth..but we'll have to call it a dwarf planet. That's just astonishingly short sighted. Doug See, that to me, sums up why I really dislike this definition. Personally, I don't think it is THAT big of deal whether or not Pluto remains a planet, but in the attempt to remove Pluto, they have shut the door for all intents and purposes on the possibility of finding planets in the cold deep. And we aren't just talking about problems for Mars and Earth-sized objects, even larger objects far out would have problems clearing their neighborhoods as go farther out. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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