Pluto is a planet.
1 posted on
12/28/2005 2:36:19 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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2 posted on
12/28/2005 2:36:51 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
Uncle Teddy is a planet. Can we get rid of him?
3 posted on
12/28/2005 2:39:23 PM PST by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
4 posted on
12/28/2005 2:39:51 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
"The simplest thing is to get rid of it and say we've got eight." Hehe...I read this and imagined that he was advocating blasting out of space the iceball someone named Pluto that has been long miscategorized as a planet. KaBlam! Wait, maybe he does mean that...
5 posted on
12/28/2005 2:42:36 PM PST by
Spiff
("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
To: SunkenCiv
1. The Planets Must Be Crazy? 2. So, if Pluto dies as a planet, who will write its Orbituary?
6 posted on
12/28/2005 3:08:22 PM PST by
sourcery
(Either the Constitution trumps stare decisis, or else the Constitution is a dead letter.)
To: SunkenCiv
Rethinking the PlanetsSeven movements aren't enough?
10 posted on
12/28/2005 3:11:20 PM PST by
Professional Engineer
(Think you know all about the Civil War? Consider this, only one side wrote the history books.)
a reprise:
2003 EL 61
Michael Brown
2003 EL61 is one of the strangest known objects in the solar system. It is a big across as Pluto, but shaped like a cigar. Or perhaps like a football [American-style]. Or, most accurately, a foot ball that has too little air in it and has been stepped on. It spins on its axis every 4 hours like a football that has been kicked. It appears to be made almost entirely of rock, but with a glaze of ice over the surface. And it is surrounded by two satellites... Very soon 2003 EL61 will get a real name, much like Sedna and Quaoar and Orcus. But when first discovered these objects are only given 'preliminary designations' until they are confirmed and well know. There is little need of confirmation of 2003 EL61 as it has now been seen after the fact in images from more than 50 years ago! We will thus propose a name to the International Astronomical Union and that name will become the permanent -- and with luck more melodious -- name of 2003 EL61.
11 posted on
12/28/2005 3:13:46 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
12 posted on
12/28/2005 3:13:59 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: r9etb
14 posted on
12/28/2005 3:28:08 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: vannrox
15 posted on
12/28/2005 3:34:57 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ..
16 posted on
12/28/2005 3:42:17 PM PST by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: BenLurkin
18 posted on
12/28/2005 4:01:44 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
...define a planet as any object whose diameter exceeds 2,000 kilometers and that is round as a result of gravity,... Realizing that science is an exercise in anal retentiveness, shouldn't that definition be "spherical?"
19 posted on
12/28/2005 4:40:22 PM PST by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: SunkenCiv
I dont think it is a planet, but it IS considered one, so be it, its "grandfathered in"..
22 posted on
12/28/2005 9:35:50 PM PST by
Paradox
(Time to sharpen ole Occam's Razor.)
To: SunkenCiv
My favorite planetoid:
25 posted on
12/28/2005 10:53:49 PM PST by
Central Scrutiniser
(Won't you eat my sleazy pancakes, just for Saintly Alfonzo)
To: SunkenCiv
Someday you people will finally wake up and realize that the other planets are vastly overated...
27 posted on
12/29/2005 2:16:01 AM PST by
FDNYRHEROES
(Liberals are not optimistic; they are delusional.)
Planet X
by Paul Schlyter
The Nine Planets:
Hypothetical Planets
The third search for Planet X began in April 1927. No progress was made in 1927-1928. In December 1929 a young farmer's boy and amateur astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh from Kansas, was hired to do the search. Tombaugh started his work in April 1929. On January 23 and 29, Tombaugh exposed the pair of plates on which he found Pluto when examining them on February 18. By then Tombaugh had examined hundreds of plate pairs and millions of stars... Tombaugh continued his search another 13 years, and examined the sky from the north celestial pole to 50 deg. south declination, down to magnitude 16-17, sometimes even 18. Tombaugh examined some 90 million images of some 30 million stars over more than 30,000 square degrees on the sky. He found one new globular cluster, 5 new open star clusters, one new supercluster of 1800 galaxies and several new small galaxy clusters, one new comet, about 775 new asteroids -- but no new planet except Pluto. Tombaugh concluded that no unknown planet brighter than magnitude 16.5 did exist -- only a planet in an almost polar orbit and situated near the south celestial pole could have escaped his detection. He could have picked up a Neptune-sized planet at seven times the distance of Pluto, or a Pluto-sized planet out to 60 a.u.
[my emphasis]
29 posted on
01/01/2006 7:28:37 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
Michael Moore is a planet!
30 posted on
01/01/2006 7:31:03 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
34 posted on
03/06/2006 10:25:08 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
35 posted on
04/14/2006 8:38:39 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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