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Astronomers Find a New Planet in Solar System
The New York Times ^
| 7/29/05
| KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 07/29/2005 3:35:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Army Air Corps
I thought her heart was still in Hanoi...perhaps that is just wishfull thinking.
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posted on
04/15/2006 6:48:25 AM PDT
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Brit1
To: Army Air Corps
I thought her heart was still in Hanoi...perhaps that is just wishfull thinking.
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posted on
04/15/2006 6:48:48 AM PDT
by
Brit1
To: Right Wing Professor
How about 'Ostomy'..its not to far from where Uranus used to be
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posted on
04/15/2006 6:53:38 AM PDT
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Brit1
To: Right Wing Professor
How about 'Ostomy'..its not to far from where Uranus used to be
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posted on
04/15/2006 6:54:25 AM PDT
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Brit1
To: Right Wing Professor
Every time I see an astronomical thread, my son and I have a running bet on how many posts it will take before the "U" planet and it's anatomical joke gets mentioned.
This time I won with 15.
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04/15/2006 7:01:09 AM PDT
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catfish1957
(Republictarian.....)
To: Right Wing Professor
Jadis, as in Queen Jadis.
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04/15/2006 7:06:36 AM PDT
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js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: Right Wing Professor
Parmina sounds nice. Does her mom have a name? Hillary, perhaps?
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04/15/2006 7:12:46 AM PDT
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js1138
(~()):~)>)
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posted on
05/14/2006 8:39:02 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Pluto
Nine Planets
Pluto and Charon are also unique in that not only does Charon rotate synchronously but Pluto does, too: they both keep the same face toward one another. (This makes the phases of Charon as seen from Pluto very interesting.)
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08/13/2006 9:56:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
(from July 2005) "Despite continual, years-long anti-American efforts to downgrade Pluto (it was discovered by a US observer) from planetary status, Pluto remains a planet."
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10/07/2006 11:51:07 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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![To Pluto -- And Far Beyond](http://i11.tinypic.com/44l331d.jpg) |
"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet. |
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10/20/2006 10:14:31 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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What Is a Planet?
Steven Soter
The Astronomical Journal,
Volume 132, Issue 6, pp. 2513-2519
Abstract: A planet is an end product of disk accretion around a primary star or substar. I quantify this definition by the degree to which a body dominates the other masses that share its orbital zone. Theoretical and observational measures of dynamical dominance reveal gaps of 4-5 orders of magnitude separating the eight planets of our solar system from the populations of asteroids and comets. The proposed definition dispenses with upper and lower mass limits for a planet. It reflects the tendency of disk evolution in a mature system to produce a small number of relatively large bodies (planets) in nonintersecting or resonant orbits, which prevents collisions between them.
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11/26/2006 4:51:35 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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09/01/2012 3:39:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: spinestein
Maybe it shines by it's own light and it ISN'T larger than Pluto.OH! HOLY CR@P!...![](http://th280.photobucket.com/albums/kk197/RetiredApachePilot/Smiley%20Faces/th_type.gif)
THEY"RE COMING!
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09/01/2012 3:51:25 PM PDT
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skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
To: Right Wing Professor
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09/01/2012 3:53:31 PM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
( It doesn't come naturally when you're not natural born.)
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