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Pluto Mission Takes Aim at Last Unvisited Planet
National Geographic ^
| 2.15.05
Posted on 02/15/2005 10:38:28 PM PST by ambrose
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To: ambrose
Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld, a moniker suggested by 11-year-old Venetia Burney of Oxford, England. The name is especially apt for the faint planet, because the Roman Pluto was able to disappear at will.
And I thought it was for a Disney character.
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posted on
02/16/2005 12:06:56 AM PST
by
carumba
To: GeronL
We could get zogby or rasmussen to start a poll on it so we'd have a new thread every week.
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posted on
02/16/2005 12:41:33 AM PST
by
flashbunny
(Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
To: ambrose
Lovely place....cold, dark, ronery...sort of like....
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posted on
02/16/2005 1:13:00 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Bush said the "F" word 27 times January 20th, 2005!)
To: ambrose
Pluto is NOT a planet! No more than Ceres is. In case of Ceres they discovered more guys like it pretty quickly, so they stopped calling it planet soon, but in case of Pluto it took some 60 years.
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posted on
02/16/2005 1:38:38 AM PST
by
eclectic
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)
To: FreedomCalls
One moon called Dion(e)--I always liked "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer".
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posted on
02/16/2005 4:04:36 AM PST
by
rod1
(uired 4 more hours).)
To: Ruth A.
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posted on
02/16/2005 5:33:07 AM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: eclectic
Does anyone know if any of the asteroids or ort bodies are large enough to be spherical due to their own gravity? This to me seems like a good criteria to separate planets from 'oids.
The fact that Pluto orbits the Sun (and not another planet) seems like good criteria to separate it from being a moon (despite it's sixe).
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posted on
02/16/2005 7:51:19 AM PST
by
arkham
To: eclectic
Does anyone know if any of the asteroids or ort bodies are large enough to be spherical due to their own gravity? This to me seems like a good criteria to separate planets from 'oids.
The fact that Pluto orbits the Sun (and not another planet) seems like good criteria to separate it from being a moon (despite it's sixe).
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02/16/2005 7:51:58 AM PST
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arkham
To: arkham
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posted on
02/16/2005 7:53:14 AM PST
by
arkham
To: ambrose
It takes 9 years to get there even counting the 2007 Jupiter Gravity Assist. If the launch slips to 2007, then NH won't make it to Pluto until 2019, because the JGA won't work any more.
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posted on
02/16/2005 4:25:17 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Columnated ruins domino...)
To: arkham
Yes, a number of the asteroids are spherical. Check out
this article by Alan Stern about Gravity Rules.
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posted on
02/16/2005 4:26:58 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Columnated ruins domino...)
To: tricky_k_1972; KevinDavis
Blast from the Past ping?
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posted on
12/15/2005 11:27:20 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Note: this topic is from 2/15/2005. Thanks ambrose.
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10/26/2013 9:31:08 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: SunkenCiv
There it is from New Horizons.
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