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Pluto Could Lose Planet Status
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| 21 June 2006
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Posted on 06/22/2006 4:11:12 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
I don't think they did.
But they're revising the whole thing in a 2006 episode anyway.
To: beezdotcom
I still say that there's something to the fact that the combined radii of the two members of the Earth-Moon pairing is exactly 7! (7 factorial) miles, which oddly enough is the same as 10!/6!
Numerology and astrology can't BOTH be wrong, can they?
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:01:37 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: RonF
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:11:44 AM PDT
by
Surtur
(Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
To: King Prout
does the body in question have sufficient gravity to maintain the stable orbit(s) of natural satellite(s) of its own? That depends on how far from the sun it is, which isn't really a good criterion.
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:22:36 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.)
To: Tanniker Smith
(And this is coming from a guy who had a problem with rationalizing the term "satellite nations" when I first learned about the Soviet Union in 6th grade.) After Sputnik was launched, there was a joke about Czechoslovakia launching its own satellite... which would circle around Sputnik.
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.)
To: King Prout
But, how would you rate Helen Thomas?
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:34:03 AM PDT
by
Skywarner
(The U.S. Armed Forces... Producers of FREEDOM for over 200 years!!)
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks, PH. :D
What's Pluto (the dog) gotta do?
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:45:09 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: wattojawa
Well Pluto's tilted eccentric orbit is more like a comet's orbit than a planet's orbit and most likely it was originally one of Neptune's moons that somehow got free of Neptune's gravity.Hmmm...an excellent example of the ongoing ancient game of space pool.... :D
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:54:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: PatrickHenry
I'll bet the citizens of Pluto are plenty angry. I sure would be if Earth lost its' status!
I fear though that this may be the democrats new voter base, disillusioned Plutonians who consider planetary status their right and entitlement.
Shove Pelosi onto a rocketship and let her do some advanced study on this.
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posted on
06/22/2006 9:57:18 AM PDT
by
Dazedcat
((Please God, make it stop))
To: skinkinthegrass
Pluto in the corner black hole.
Dang, that must be one hell of a cue stick.
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posted on
06/22/2006 10:06:10 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: tlb
Yeah! What's with this UB313 crap? I thought the planet was gonna be named after me!
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posted on
06/22/2006 10:09:38 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling.)
To: Skywarner
But, how would you rate Helen Thomas?NOW YOU"VE DONE IT!
....someone's gonna post her picture (but I won't :) now.
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posted on
06/22/2006 10:12:44 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: RonF
You just HAD to bring Hasselhoff into it, didn't you? ;)
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posted on
06/22/2006 10:14:47 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling.)
To: Tanniker Smith
Dang, that must be one hell of a cue stick.Yes....It Is (its' at least 19.18 au long :), of course, the size of the pool table (the Ort Cloud :) is important , too.
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posted on
06/22/2006 10:24:38 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Surtur
To: Sergio
Thanks for the comments, Sergio. His Out of the Darkness: The Planet Pluto earned my great respect for him, when I was a young teen.
To: PatrickHenry
What the bleep does this have to do with EVOLUTION.
To: PatrickHenry
The Seventh Planet is tickled by this news....
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posted on
06/22/2006 11:23:10 AM PDT
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: longshadow
The Seventh Planet is tickled by this news....Someone tickled Ur_____?
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posted on
06/22/2006 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: RonF
If the point about which two bodies orbit each other is not beneath the surface of one of them, but is between them, then I'd call that a binary system. Sometimes the Sun-Jupiter system has its center-of-gravity outside the Sun's surface.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:14:30 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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