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To: nickcarraway

Doesn’t change the science at all regardless if you call it a planet, dwarf planet, or Rosie O’Donnell: it is still a cold lifeless dumb rock in outer space.


2 posted on 02/03/2017 3:58:17 PM PST by John Robinson (I am a twit @_John_Robinson)
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To: John Robinson
Somebody changed the rules.

Pluto has the largest orbit and no help from the other planets. It's out in the rural countryside where it's difficult to clean up the whole place when you only visit a place once every 248 years.

Think of the dust build up alone.

7 posted on 02/03/2017 4:31:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: John Robinson

LOL! Any news about Pluto riles my husband up. “It’s a planet, Dammit!” (Sometimes his language is more colorful.)

There’s been a book on my Amazon wish list for a while:

‘How I Killed Pluto, and Why It Had It Coming’, by Mike Brown:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Killed-Pluto-Why-Coming/dp/0385531109

Michael Brown is the guy whose team discovered Eris, which helped lead to this whole mess. (It’s interesting that ‘Eris’ is the name of the Greek Goddess of ‘strife and discord’.)

For the sake of domestic and conjugal harmony, I consider Pluto a Planet - dammit!


10 posted on 02/03/2017 5:03:08 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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