Experts meet to decide Pluto fate, Finally we'll know what a 'planet' is... |
Experts meet to decide Pluto fate, Finally we'll know what a 'planet' is... |
Aug 14 2006, 06:06 AM
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Aug 16 2006, 06:25 AM
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A wise choice. They have a nice physically-based definition instead of "I think Mercury is big enough, but Pluto isn't". Well worth the millions spent on their big meeting in Prague.
If they had reduced us to 8 planets and kicked out Pluto, many people would surely have been upset. It would have been hard to get concensus at IAU, which undermines it. And it would be harder to get funding to look for and study new Planets in the outer solarsystem. [attachment=7015:attachment] But instead they gave us three new planets. TV news programs tomorrow get to tell everyone there are 12 planets, they get to introduce them to Ceres and explain it is named after the goddess of wheat or whatever. And nobody is going to be angry, because who has a grudge against Ceres? [attachment=7016:attachment] So now the next pointless but irresistable debate will certainly be, what do we call 2003UB313? |
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