Re: Pluto needs your assistance.
- From: Rich Grise <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:18:31 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:36:09 +0000, Homer J Simpson wrote:
"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" <eatmyshorts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:pan.2006.08.30.02.57.23.997894@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So, I guess they said that If we continue to include Pluto, we'd have
to include Ceres, and that would be even more confusing, since I've
also heard that Ceres is someplace in the Asteroid Belt.
Then for heaven's sake let's have Xena as well!!
Well, I happened to tune into some TeeVee Nooz show while the decision
was going down, and they decided that Pluto should be a "dwarf planet".
I don't like that at all, not even one little bit. Maybe "secondary planet",
or why not what they settled on calling the asteroids, "planetoids"?
So, Pluto's our most famous planetoid, and Ceres is our ... --- =:-O
Geez! They've already got a name - "Minor planets".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet
Would it insult Pluto to include her with them?
I'm looking up diameters now...
Pluto:
diameter: 2274 km
mass: 1.27e22 kg
Ceres:
Dimensions: 975×909 km
Mass: 9.5×10e20 kg
Heh - here, they call Ceres a "dwarf planet":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres
So, what can you say? Go figure. ;-)
I wonder if there's anybody left who's smart enough to rewrite all of
those textbooks? ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
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