Re: 2006 IAU 12 planets resolution petition

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:15:50 -0500, RT wrote:



osdfey wrote:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:46:20 -0700, mirceaar wrote:

At
http://www.petitiononline.com/9planets/petition.html
you will find a petition that considers that the current resolution of
IAU regarding the definition of a planet is currently innapropriate.
Although it does not provide another definition for planet - which is
rather a difficult one - it considers that the stated definition will
create confusion more than anything else, not necessarily within the
scientific community, but with people in general. The petition text is
written by an amateur astronomer, so don't expect much scientific
eloquence.

The new IAU definition is great. The ONLY reason anyone is against it is
because 9 planets is so ingrained into pop-culture.

That's right. Its cultural. So is the word "slop"! But we all know what it
means.

Where this runs
into problems however is when we get to Alpha Centauri

But what if we get to 3c23 first!? Your example is pure boiler plate.

how is this a problem for the IAU definition? and i (admittedly) dont know
what 3c23 is, but don't think it matters.

then what is a
planet?

This is science, *** happens, new better replaces old and
stupid,

and the new one is STUPIDO .......... enough said to this moron. Have a nice
salad.

bad/no definition gets replaced by EXACT SCIENTIFIC definition.
Why can't you people see how having enough gravity to form into a sphere
is such a perfect designation point?

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