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Alan Stern
post Aug 10 2008, 03:17 PM
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- Alan Stern   The Great Planet Debate conference   Aug 10 2008, 03:17 PM
- - surreyguy   Ah, that'll be good, if so. Keep me out of (o...   Aug 11 2008, 09:00 PM
- - djellison   I was worried this would turn into another 'de...   Aug 11 2008, 10:20 PM
|- - JRehling   The "authority" issue is a relevant one....   Aug 11 2008, 10:41 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 11 2008, 02:41 PM) ...   Aug 11 2008, 11:50 PM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 11 2008, 07:5...   Aug 12 2008, 01:07 AM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 11 2008, 04:5...   Aug 12 2008, 06:54 AM
||- - dvandorn   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 12 2008, 01:54 AM) ...   Aug 12 2008, 07:09 AM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 11 2008, 05:41 PM) ...   Aug 12 2008, 06:17 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 11 2008, 11:17 PM) ...   Aug 12 2008, 07:12 AM
- - surreyguy   OK, I get you. We seem to be straying off 'Dw...   Aug 11 2008, 10:20 PM
- - nprev   Totally agree, Mike; said it before & I'll...   Aug 12 2008, 01:19 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 11 2008, 06:19 PM) Tot...   Aug 12 2008, 01:54 AM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 02:5...   Aug 12 2008, 01:57 AM
||- - nprev   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 11 2008, 05:57 PM...   Aug 12 2008, 02:32 AM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 11 2008, 06:57 PM...   Aug 12 2008, 03:44 AM
||- - nprev   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 11 2008, 07:4...   Aug 12 2008, 04:34 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 11 2008, 08:5...   Aug 12 2008, 02:17 AM
- - volcanopele   Don't forget that planetary scientists also st...   Aug 12 2008, 04:34 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 11 2008, 08:34 P...   Aug 12 2008, 03:03 PM
|- - JRehling   A title I always find funny is "Lunar and Pla...   Aug 12 2008, 06:52 PM
- - lyford   Ok, so if a planetary scientist were less than 5 f...   Aug 12 2008, 05:07 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Absolutely right, Alan. The IAU has not really re...   Aug 12 2008, 02:03 PM
- - Phil Stooke   JRehling: "And, of course, *anything* that i...   Aug 12 2008, 02:05 PM
- - Juramike   Objects smaller than the Sun occupy a multidimensi...   Aug 12 2008, 03:12 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (Juramike @ Aug 12 2008, 03:12 PM) ...   Aug 12 2008, 03:34 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 12 2008, 08:34 AM...   Aug 12 2008, 10:07 PM
||- - laurele   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 06:0...   Aug 12 2008, 10:33 PM
|||- - pumpkinpie   QUOTE (laurele @ Aug 12 2008, 04:33 PM) I...   Aug 13 2008, 01:08 AM
|||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (pumpkinpie @ Aug 12 2008, 05:08 PM...   Aug 13 2008, 04:01 AM
|||- - JRehling   QUOTE (pumpkinpie @ Aug 12 2008, 06:08 PM...   Aug 13 2008, 04:50 AM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 03:0...   Aug 12 2008, 11:46 PM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 12 2008, 03:46 PM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 03:49 AM
||- - nprev   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 07:4...   Aug 13 2008, 04:14 AM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 08:4...   Aug 13 2008, 05:04 AM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 12 2008, 10:04 PM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 05:18 AM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 12 2008, 10:1...   Aug 13 2008, 06:24 AM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 13 2008, 07:24 AM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 07:44 AM
||- - surreyguy   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 13 2008, 08:44 AM)...   Aug 13 2008, 10:05 AM
|||- - djellison   QUOTE (surreyguy @ Aug 13 2008, 11:05 AM)...   Aug 13 2008, 10:32 AM
|||- - Juramike   QUOTE (surreyguy @ Aug 13 2008, 05:05 AM)...   Aug 13 2008, 11:50 AM
||- - Stephen   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 13 2008, 05:44 PM)...   Aug 13 2008, 11:39 AM
|||- - djellison   QUOTE (Stephen @ Aug 13 2008, 12:39 PM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 12:29 PM
|||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Stephen @ Aug 13 2008, 03:39 AM) T...   Aug 13 2008, 08:16 PM
|||- - JRehling   Per the term "planetary", it's clear...   Aug 13 2008, 08:34 PM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 13 2008, 12:44 AM)...   Aug 13 2008, 05:53 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 12 2008, 10:34 AM...   Aug 12 2008, 10:30 PM
- - djellison   FYI - the actual pluto debate itself has been had ...   Aug 12 2008, 03:24 PM
- - pumpkinpie   I've registered to watch the debate but I neve...   Aug 12 2008, 07:06 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (pumpkinpie @ Aug 12 2008, 07:06 PM...   Aug 12 2008, 08:13 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Aug 12 2008, 09:13 PM...   Aug 12 2008, 10:18 PM
|- - tedstryk   I thing the moon versus planet definition works. ...   Aug 12 2008, 10:34 PM
- - Juramike   I think the Great Planetary Debate will work itsel...   Aug 12 2008, 07:33 PM
- - laurele   We may need to come to the realization that no one...   Aug 12 2008, 08:50 PM
|- - tedstryk   I think a lot of this trouble stems from the quest...   Aug 12 2008, 09:12 PM
- - surreyguy   Maybe I'm just belabouring the obvious here, b...   Aug 12 2008, 10:10 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (surreyguy @ Aug 12 2008, 02:10 PM)...   Aug 12 2008, 10:42 PM
- - alan   It's too bad the debate tends to fixate on Plu...   Aug 13 2008, 07:22 AM
- - Ken McLean   Why don't we just accept the geo- prefix as it...   Aug 13 2008, 02:19 PM
- - stevesliva   Three (or more) issues here: 1. The IAU definiti...   Aug 13 2008, 06:52 PM
|- - Stephen   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Aug 14 2008, 04:52 AM...   Aug 14 2008, 02:08 AM
- - surreyguy   To me the significant point about the biological a...   Aug 13 2008, 06:56 PM
- - Floyd   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 13 2008, 01:53 PM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 07:08 PM
|- - JRehling   All of these examples are useful for setting up a ...   Aug 13 2008, 08:04 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 13 2008, 12:04 PM) ...   Aug 13 2008, 08:34 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 13 2008, 01:3...   Aug 13 2008, 09:05 PM
|- - laurele   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 13 2008, 03:3...   Aug 14 2008, 03:28 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (laurele @ Aug 13 2008, 07:28 PM) S...   Aug 14 2008, 03:46 AM
- - surreyguy   Yay! Registration came through. And... you c...   Aug 13 2008, 08:50 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (surreyguy @ Aug 13 2008, 09:50 PM)...   Aug 13 2008, 09:07 PM
- - Greg Hullender   In other news, I got my "Instructions for Vie...   Aug 13 2008, 08:51 PM
- - Floyd   JRehling It is clear that you don't like the I...   Aug 13 2008, 11:20 PM
|- - JRehling   I'd be happy if this were a situation where a ...   Aug 13 2008, 11:58 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 13 2008, 03:58 PM) ...   Aug 14 2008, 03:38 AM
|- - Stephen   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 14 2008, 01:3...   Aug 14 2008, 04:40 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Aug 13 2008, 08:3...   Aug 14 2008, 05:05 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 13 2008, 10:05 PM) ...   Aug 14 2008, 05:30 AM
- - dvandorn   Do also remember that whatever definition of plane...   Aug 14 2008, 04:29 AM
- - djellison   Yet again, a thread on this topic is getting heate...   Aug 14 2008, 07:40 AM
- - djellison   I now have my registration details, so I'm in ...   Aug 14 2008, 09:44 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 14 2008, 04:44 AM)...   Aug 14 2008, 11:15 AM
- - surreyguy   Yeah - asking how the definition (whatever it is) ...   Aug 14 2008, 05:17 PM
- - djellison   I submitted two 1) Dr Tyson has said in the past...   Aug 14 2008, 05:29 PM
|- - JRehling   Good overarching questions. That discourse of Geo...   Aug 14 2008, 05:59 PM
- - nprev   This is parenthetical (what do I ever say that isn...   Aug 14 2008, 06:09 PM
- - Greg Hullender   I asked them whether they thought we had enough ex...   Aug 14 2008, 06:54 PM
- - alan   It's started   Aug 14 2008, 07:56 PM
- - Juramike   I asked why we couldn't just expand the meta-t...   Aug 14 2008, 07:58 PM
- - nprev   "Let the Games begin!!!" ...   Aug 14 2008, 07:59 PM
- - Juramike   Whoo-hoo! I'm in! [Actually, hearing...   Aug 14 2008, 08:01 PM
- - alan   false alarm, they were only practicing the introdu...   Aug 14 2008, 08:01 PM
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