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Pluto Could Lose Planet Status
PhysOrg.com ^
| 21 June 2006
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Posted on 06/22/2006 4:11:12 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Jaysun
I define a planet as anything Pluto or bigger that directly orbits a star.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
"Uebee"
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:11:58 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: PatrickHenry
Okay, you tell
her that she's being demoted.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:15:21 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: PatrickHenry
Plutism - plain and simple! Those bloody Plutists!!!
We need special planetary districts to guarantee representation of minority planets.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:15:32 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(outside a good dog, a book is your best friend. inside a dog it's too dark to read)
To: Past Your Eyes
How about Goofy? (Kerry comes to mind.)
To: PatrickHenry; RadioAstronomer
Both definitions seem vague to me.
Re: star vs planet
if we think it's big enough to burn it's on matter, but isn't doing so? What if it's doing so but only on a very limited basis and doesn't look like a star?
Re: small end of planet
How round is round? We have mountains, does that mean our gravity isn't stronger than our material? Does an asteroid of fine particles that assumes a round shape qualify as a planet?
I think on the small end they should set a specific mass. On the large end, it should not be burning it's own material and it should be orbiting something.
What do we call a planet that's not orbiting a star? Is it still a planet?
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:25:02 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: dc27; SW6906
(5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.) I like your tagline, but you forgot horsepower.
Obviously, you've never tried to drive a 2WD truck up a steep hill on bald tires in the middle of winter... There IS such a thing as too much horsepower!!! ;-P
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:25:47 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Trains stop at train stations. On my desk is a workstation...)
To: DannyTN
The only thing I learned that sticks in my head is: Stars twinkle, planets do not.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:29:52 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: PatrickHenry
Interesting. Both Titan and Ganymede are larger than the planet Mercury...
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:30:18 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
To: MortMan
That's not too much horsepower, that's a baldness problem.
I was thinking balls could get added to that list, but then some guys have more balls than brains, and that's not good.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:31:27 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Sloth
I have an VERY old USA atlas. There are several planets named and shown in their orbits besides what we learned in school.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:32:26 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: JusPasenThru
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:33:34 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: PatrickHenry
I can see the headline in the NY Times: Pluto Stripped of Planetary Status; Women and Minorities Most Affected
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:33:34 AM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
To: MortMan
Reminds me of a time I towed my friend's ski boat with my 2WD truck. His 4WD was in the shop. All was good going down his steep driveway, which wasn't paved. It was just covered with crushed rock. Had to let all the air out of the tires and put bags of concrete in the bed to get up the driveway. It wasn't pretty, resembled a tractor pull. He wasn't too happy about all the rocks bouncing off his gel coat.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:35:19 AM PDT
by
dc27
To: PatrickHenry
I was dated a women, in college, who thought there were only 7 planets in the entire universe. 35 years later my friend, who sent me up with this blind date, still refers to her as "7 planet women". Maybe she was just ahead of her time.
To: cynicalman
To: cynicalman
sent = set god I have to drink my cup of coffee before posting
To: PatrickHenry
Pluto not a planet!!! This is terrible!
Just yesterday, someone asked me if Goofy was really a dog?
To: PatrickHenry
The 10th planet is nicknamed
Xena until it is officially named.
Unfortunately, 2003 EL61 doesn't have a name yet.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
I define a planet as anything Pluto or bigger that directly orbits a star.
Actually, if you look at the orbit, "our" moon actually orbits the sun, not Earth. The moon's orbit is always concave toward the sun. Sometimes (once each month) the curvature of the moon's orbit becomes more than the average curvature of the Earth-moon system, and the moon moves a bit further from the sun, but the moon's orbit never curves away from the sun, nor does it ever 'back up'. The same thing can be said of the Earth itself. In effect, we have a double-planet system.
Calling Luna a planet also meets the quoted definition of a planet, where the gravity overcomes the strength of material (round). Of course, there are a lot of 'moons' of Saturn and Jupiter that are round. In those cases the moons' orbits do curve away from the sun.
Maybe you need to expand your definition and say that it's a bigger than Pluto and is the largest object within a million miles.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:45:17 AM PDT
by
Gorjus
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Isn't that where the Cyber-Men come from?
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