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 17 2006, 08:37 AM
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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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Jan 17 2006, 02:51 PM
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QUOTE (odave @ Jan 17 2006, 02:05 PM) 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? Well - if they'll go for 'Xena'...... Doug |
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Jan 17 2006, 05:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 17 2006, 06:51 AM) I'd go for Xena! No wait, I don't think that's what you meant.... I agree with Doug about considering them the "Pluto Class" of bodies..... bodies.... um, just got distracted there for a minute... What was that about Gabrielle? -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jan 17 2006, 10:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (odave @ Jan 17 2006, 03:05 PM) 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? The IAU won't accept *that* term, due to it's Political Incorrectness. Thet *might* go for 'Thermally-Disadvantaged Planet of Restricted Growth' or TDPG - see, it trips off the tongue, doesn't it! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 17 2006, 11:30 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jan 17 2006, 11:39 PM) The IAU won't accept *that* term, due to it's Political Incorrectness. Thet *might* go for 'Thermally-Disadvantaged Planet of Restricted Growth' or TDPG - see, it trips off the tongue, doesn't it! Bob Shaw Exploring the acronym idea and considering the difficulties the IAU and others are having I propose: ODDS - Outer dim and Distant Systems (For objects with satellites) SODS - Solar Orbiting Distant Spheres. (For solitary planet like objects) and perhaps at a stretch DEMONS - Distant Embarassing Minor Orbiting Natural Spheres |
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Apr 25 2006, 04:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
Sorry to dredge up an older topic...however, there was talk of the 'is Pluto a planet' in another forum that I wanted to respond to but it would have been off topic.
According to the wikipedia entry for 'Planet'...The name comes from the Greek term πλανήτης, planētēs, meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. So therefor only Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are 'Planets'. Since 'Planet' already has such a definition, let's move on. We need a word or words for rocky worlds and gaseous worlds. There should be a lower size limit to exclude debris. Our asteroid belt, and now TNOs/KBOs, make this more difficult as there's such a range within a given volume of space. I'm sure whatever the IAU does decide it will be unpopular with one group or another. I'm in favor of the word "Orbiter", as in "The orbiter Earth", "Third orbiter from the sun". -------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Apr 25 2006, 04:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Planet - classical planet
Planetoid - planet-like Asteroid - star-like Comet - classical comet Cometoid - comet-like Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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