Plutoids: a new class of objects beyond Neptune, Astronomy, politics or damage control |
Plutoids: a new class of objects beyond Neptune, Astronomy, politics or damage control |
Jun 12 2008, 09:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
Article on the BBC website: 'Non-planet' Pluto gets new class
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7449735.stm QUOTE Now an IAU committee, meeting in Oslo, has suggested that small, nearly spherical objects orbiting beyond Neptune should carry the "plutoid" tag. It also goes on to say that not everybody is too excited about it: QUOTE "It's just some people in a smoke-filled room who dreamed it up," he told the Associated Press. "Plutoids or haemorrhoids, whatever they call it. This is irrelevant." -------------------- |
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Jun 13 2008, 04:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Forum Guidelines
QUOTE 1.9 Other banned subjects : Is Pluto a Planet? ... Lets keep this discussion light, the Pluto is a planet , is not a planet, debate has been done to death if a serious debate of the subject reappears the thread will be deleted. |
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Jun 13 2008, 10:10 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Lets keep this discussion light, the Pluto is a planet , is not a planet, debate has been done to death if a serious debate of the subject reappears the thread will be deleted. With the greatest of respect, I think this has been a very light discussion actually, and generally respectful of Forum guidelines. The discussion has been about the word and classification of "plutoid", not really the more Pluto-specific one. I think it's a very healthy topic to discuss here, not just because the IAU has ressurected the topic itself by introducing the term "plutoid", but because this topic is, whether we like it or not, going to come up again and again in the future, in fact every time a new... um... 'thingy' beyond Neptune is discovered. But if we've got to the stage where there's a threat of the thread actually being deleted I suggest we all let this lie now now, lest these very valuable contributions to the debate end up in the bin, which would be a great shame. I'd like to thank all the fellow Outreachers here for their suggestions and comments, all extremely useful. Can't wait to see what New Horizons shows us, and lets us share with our audiences in 2015...! -------------------- |
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