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To: SunkenCiv

Not only that, but Pluto is much too interesting to be dismissed as a planet: 3 moons, an atmosphere, its history either as a former moon of Neptune or having been placed in its current orbit by an encounter with Neptune and, culturally, we have a spacecraft en route to it.


168 posted on 06/24/2006 10:51:37 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

And perhaps a ring. I'd not be surprised if more moons / moonlets are found. Boring old tiny little Pluto will wind up one of the most interesting, precisely because of where it is and (by 2012) its many siblings (such as Brown's Planet, Quaoar, Sedna, 2003 EL61, 2004 DW, and those to come in the next six years).

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The satellites of Neptune and the origin of Pluto
Authors: Harrington, R. S.; van Flandern, T. C.
http://tinyurl.com/qsozh


173 posted on 06/24/2006 3:26:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)
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