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SFJCody Big Tno Discovery Jul 29 2005, 08:03 AM
mike Planet X, or perhaps Rama I. Jul 29 2005, 08:17 AM slinted Interestingly enough, it had already been found by... Jul 29 2005, 09:16 AM
Bob Shaw Hmmm... ...a candidate for a post-Pluto encounter,... Jul 29 2005, 09:55 AM TheChemist BBC article : Distant object found orbiting Sun Jul 29 2005, 11:52 AM volcanopele While K40506A/2003 EL61 now appears to be smaller ... Jul 29 2005, 09:55 PM Sunspot WOW............when will there be an official anno... Jul 29 2005, 10:15 PM volcanopele QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jul 29 2005, 03:15 PM)WOW...... Jul 30 2005, 12:58 AM odave The article quotes Brown as saying it will be ... Jul 30 2005, 01:32 AM Jyril That's not all!
There are third large KBO... Jul 29 2005, 11:29 PM Decepticon Is the object at it's closest approach to the ... Jul 30 2005, 03:20 AM Decepticon http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_new_p... Jul 30 2005, 03:22 AM remcook Methane on the surface as well...another frozen-ou... Jul 30 2005, 11:28 AM BruceMoomaw According to the NY Times, it's nowhere near p... Jul 30 2005, 11:42 AM dilo In a previous thread, few months ago, I proposed a... Jul 30 2005, 01:10 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 30 2005, 05:42 AM)Pe... Jul 30 2005, 03:32 PM Mongo QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 30 2005, 11:42 AM)Pe... Jul 30 2005, 04:09 PM Myran Bruce. Just wait until they have found a thousand ... Jul 30 2005, 12:37 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Myran @ Jul 30 2005, 12:37 PM)Bruce. J... Jul 30 2005, 01:52 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Myran @ Jul 30 2005, 12:37 PM)Bruce. J... Jul 30 2005, 02:03 PM Sunspot Any idea what the dates would have been for the la... Jul 30 2005, 02:22 PM alan about 1700, roughly magnitude 14.5
next about 2250 Jul 30 2005, 03:04 PM Decepticon With all these discovers which web page has a list... Jul 30 2005, 03:52 PM alan QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jul 30 2005, 03:52 PM)Wit... Jul 30 2005, 05:34 PM Myran QUOTE Alan Stern said: That day will come, in this... Jul 30 2005, 04:02 PM gpurcell I wonder if a size+orbital mechanics might not be ... Jul 30 2005, 05:24 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (gpurcell @ Jul 30 2005, 05:24 PM)I won... Jul 30 2005, 07:08 PM alan interesting note: 2003 EL61 has been found on plat... Jul 30 2005, 06:02 PM dvandorn Truthfully, I think that Pluto needs to be demoted... Jul 30 2005, 06:14 PM Alan Stern I think that planets should be defined as objects ... Jul 30 2005, 07:12 PM dvandorn Aw, shoot -- and here I had in mind a concept wher... Jul 30 2005, 07:57 PM Mongo I do rather like Mike Brown's definition of a ... Jul 30 2005, 08:04 PM Alan Stern Bill--
You're back to that old location argum... Jul 30 2005, 10:25 PM Mongo QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 30 2005, 10:25 PM)Thi... Jul 30 2005, 11:20 PM BruceMoomaw "In contrast, the earth has a diameter of abo... Jul 30 2005, 08:38 PM Myran QUOTE Alan Stern said: And as to Sedna and Pluto a... Jul 30 2005, 08:41 PM Jyril In my opinion, large Kuiper Belt objects (includin... Jul 30 2005, 09:43 PM BruceMoomaw Back in the 1980s, Isaac Asimov proposed that come... Jul 30 2005, 11:17 PM BruceMoomaw QUOTE (Mongo @ Jul 30 2005, 04:09 PM)It now l... Jul 30 2005, 11:25 PM Mongo QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 30 2005, 11:25 PM)Wh... Jul 30 2005, 11:35 PM BruceMoomaw By the way, it's "2005 FY9", not ... Jul 30 2005, 11:26 PM deglr6328 Getting away from the planet/KBO/TNO debate for a ... Jul 31 2005, 03:35 AM Alan Stern These new guys are lilely to not be KB but instead... Jul 31 2005, 03:51 AM deglr6328 Cool! I will have to wait to read your paper i... Jul 31 2005, 04:22 AM BruceMoomaw In our little private "Planetary Sciences... Jul 31 2005, 05:55 AM JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 30 2005, 10:55 PM)In... Aug 1 2005, 08:44 PM tedstryk QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 1 2005, 08:44 PM)If I w... Aug 1 2005, 11:50 PM spaceffm For all interested in sizes i made 2 little Diagra... Aug 2 2005, 12:19 AM tedstryk It might be cool to add Ganymede, since it is the ... Aug 2 2005, 01:31 AM paxdan QUOTE (spaceffm @ Aug 2 2005, 01:19 AM)For al... Aug 2 2005, 12:03 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (paxdan @ Aug 2 2005, 07:03 AM)Nice one... Aug 2 2005, 02:00 PM odave QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 1 2005, 04:44 PM)If I w... Aug 2 2005, 02:23 PM JRehling QUOTE (odave @ Aug 2 2005, 07:23 AM)One thing... Aug 2 2005, 03:23 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 2 2005, 10:23 AM)Honest... Aug 2 2005, 03:37 PM Jyril Like I feared, that -0.4 value was a false alarm, ... Jul 31 2005, 07:21 AM OWW In my opinion the whole planet/KBO/asteroid debate... Jul 31 2005, 09:35 AM abalone What peculiar little creatures we humans are that ... Jul 31 2005, 09:36 AM dilo Based on the ongoing discussion, I made following ... Jul 31 2005, 11:06 AM Alan Stern Dilo--I wonder, what will you do when Mars-sized a... Jul 31 2005, 02:00 PM MiniTES QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 31 2005, 02:00 PM)Loc... Jul 31 2005, 05:43 PM Alan Stern I do think Ceres is a planet: a dwarf one, but no ... Jul 31 2005, 08:07 PM DEChengst QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 31 2005, 10:07 PM)Jus... Jul 31 2005, 08:40 PM DEChengst QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jul 31 2005, 04:00 PM)Loc... Jul 31 2005, 06:25 PM alan This is how I would divide things
If it orbits a ... Jul 31 2005, 06:35 PM Alan Stern [quote=alan,Jul 31 2005, 06:35 PM]
This is how I w... Jul 31 2005, 08:11 PM dvandorn So, is Titan a planet? Is Ganymede? Is Triton?
... Jul 31 2005, 08:15 PM dilo Alan, you observed that my scheme wouldn't cor... Jul 31 2005, 10:13 PM Mongo I think that the problem we have is that the curre... Jul 31 2005, 06:42 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (Mongo @ Jul 31 2005, 06:42 PM)I think ... Jul 31 2005, 08:14 PM dvandorn If real estate doesn't matter and you classify... Jul 31 2005, 07:44 PM Alan Stern QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 31 2005, 07:44 PM)If re... Jul 31 2005, 08:16 PM dvandorn OK -- fair enough. Though that *is* allowing a gr... Jul 31 2005, 08:29 PM Alan Stern Other Doug-- I respectfully disagree; people I spe... Jul 31 2005, 09:19 PM abalone QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 1 2005, 07:29 AM)OK -- ... Aug 1 2005, 12:28 PM Mongo Just to let everybody know ... there is a new Yaho... Jul 31 2005, 10:33 PM BruceMoomaw Alan Stern: "The one comment I'll make he... Aug 1 2005, 03:31 AM abalone QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 1 2005, 02:31 PM)Ala... Aug 1 2005, 06:23 AM Alan Stern Chonrules are spherical due to surface tension, no... Aug 1 2005, 06:40 AM abalone QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 1 2005, 05:40 PM)Chon... Aug 1 2005, 07:00 AM dvandorn I've been enjoying the discussion, actually. ... Aug 1 2005, 07:37 AM abalone QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 1 2005, 06:37 PM) It... Aug 1 2005, 12:38 PM AndyG QUOTE (abalone @ Aug 1 2005, 12:38 PM)Classif... Aug 1 2005, 03:11 PM BruceMoomaw More news from Mike Brown via Ron Baalke in the ... Aug 1 2005, 03:33 AM Decepticon Boy would I love to see one of these up close.
Ma... Aug 1 2005, 03:42 AM Rob Pinnegar Forgetting about trans-Neptunian objects for the m... Aug 1 2005, 05:57 AM BruceMoomaw Today's MPEC ( http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec... Aug 1 2005, 09:03 AM edstrick I haven't read every work exhaustively in the ... Aug 1 2005, 10:14 AM ilbasso Our taxonomic system for life went through some ma... Aug 1 2005, 04:24 PM dvandorn Don't delude yourselves, guys -- there is a fa... Aug 1 2005, 05:48 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 1 2005, 11:48 AM)One of... Aug 2 2005, 01:23 AM gpurcell At what mass will a body have a differentiated cor... Aug 2 2005, 01:20 AM ilbasso And don't forget Venus! (I know, and Satur... Aug 2 2005, 02:19 AM Decepticon That is a Great chart!
Very few of those on... Aug 2 2005, 03:54 AM abalone Here's something to consider
Brown argues tha... Aug 2 2005, 09:24 AM Benoît QUOTE (abalone @ Aug 2 2005, 05:24 AM)Here... Aug 2 2005, 10:05 AM abalone QUOTE (Benoît @ Aug 2 2005, 09:05 PM)There wa... Aug 2 2005, 12:12 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (abalone @ Aug 2 2005, 03:24 AM)"E... Aug 2 2005, 02:30 PM JRehling QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Aug 2 2005, 07:30 AM)Th... Aug 2 2005, 03:41 PM Myran QUOTE ljk4-1 said: And don't forget how active... Aug 2 2005, 02:37 PM centsworth_II Rather than embracing culture, why not embrace his... Aug 2 2005, 03:23 PM  |
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