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Largest known dwarf planet named after Greek goddess of chaos [HAIL ERIS!]
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 9/13/06
| Alicia Chang
Posted on 09/13/2006 7:57:54 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
I think the farthest planet from the sun should be called "the left wing" or maybe "Howard Dean"
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:22:24 PM PDT
by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
To: donmeaker
Eris threw the golden apple into a party (at which She had not been invited!) The apple said "For the Fairest!". Excellent ... did not know that even if I remember the story. :)
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:24:11 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
To: uptoolate
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:24:45 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: TFFKAMM
I thought "dwarf" was a bad word now.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:25:43 PM PDT
by
Graymatter
(TV-free and clean for 3 years, 2 months.)
To: TFFKAMM
"After much bickering, astronomers last month voted to shrink the solar system to eight planets,"
The solar system includes everything that orbits the sun, including Pluto. They did not "shrink" the solar system, they merely renamed some of the objects that make it up.
Maybe they should have talked with an astronomer.
To: TFFKAMM
I don't understand.....Is the dwarf planet gay? Why is the SF Chronicle writing about it???
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:27:06 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some Freepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: TFFKAMM
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:28:16 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
( 9/11 was never repeated thanks to President George Bush.The Democrat Party is The Party of Treason)
To: TFFKAMM
You know, considering it's cold, desolate, and barren, they should've called it Gertrude Stein.
To: metmom
And just where is the line between the largest dwarf planet and the smallest regular planet? This is apparently the qualifications for dwarf planet
From wiki
The resolution describes a dwarf planet as an object that:
* Is in orbit around the Sun
* Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape
* Has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit
* Is not a satellite of a planet, or other nonstellar body
This is the qualifier the separates dwarf planets from the standard planets.
* Has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit
There are a LOT of other bodies around Ceres (Asteroid Belt), Pluto (plutinos and twotino bodies / KBO's), and Eris (Scattered Disk Objects / Kupier Belt Objects
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:29:27 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
To: Graymatter
Dumb astronomers. They forgot. Now they'll have to change their new classification to "stature-challenged planet".
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:31:25 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: lesser_satan
Well, I'll be damned.
They're probably waiting for one with just one moon, to name after me and Gabrielle.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:33:59 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(expanding my impersonator repertoire to include Charo)
To: TFFKAMM
Named after the Greek goddess of chaos and strife? They named it - Congress?
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:34:21 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: Savage Beast
A dwarf planet, by the new definition, is large enough for gravity to force it to a sphere.
Overlooked by many is Ceres, formerly an asteroid, is now also a dwarf planet.
Ceres is the G-ddess of grains, and after Her is named our breakfast Cereal. Extra points if anyone can come up with the connection between Ceres and Pluto (without searching the Internet!)
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:34:22 PM PDT
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: metmom; RadioAstronomer
Apparently there are quite a few more objects that could possibly become dwarf planets as well
Ping to RadioAstronomer as well ... he knows this stuff a lot better than anyone else here.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:35:18 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
To: Centurion2000
HMMM. What about the rings around Saturn? Those are still in the neighborhood...
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:36:42 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: donmeaker
Extra points if anyone can come up with the connection between Ceres and Pluto (without searching the Internet!) Wasn't Ceres aka Demeter who was the wife of Persephone who was the wife of Pluto after he abducted her?
Criminy ... now I know where soap opera writers got their plot themes .... greek/roman mythology.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:37:45 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
To: irishtenor
Well, if I were to defend the criteria, Saturn's rings would fall under the definitions of satellites and not orbital bodies in nearby solar orbits.
Of course the Centaurs and Trojan asteroids could topple Saturn and Jupiter to dwarf planets using these rulings as well since those are "in the neighborhood" and not satellites of those respective planets.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:40:21 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
To: TFFKAMM
KALISTI
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:41:02 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Centurion2000
Paris got dragged into the apple fiasco...then Helen met Paris. We all know what happened next.
Eris is quite a troublemaker.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:43:14 PM PDT
by
bannie
(HILLARY: Not all perversions are sexual.)
To: metmom
Here are some more possible dwarf planets ... all those in blue are at least as big as Ceres.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:43:20 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
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