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Article #71Re: asteroids beyond Jupi
From: Paul Burnett
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:20
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:20
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JC> Is anyone willing to demote Pluto/Charon to asteroid status,
One would then be forced (for the sake of internal consistency) to
similarly "demote" Phobos, Deimos, and also most if not all of Jupiter's
and Saturn's moons - I don't think it's gonna happen.
JC>or
>think about the use of the term "worlds" that some seem to favor for
>large bodies even if not orbiting the Sun?
That's dumb (IMHO) - science attempts to be _more_ specific - "world" is
deliberately unspecific - I can see ignorant bureaucrats wanting to do
this, but not serious scientists.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!pcs!paul.burnett From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupi Message-ID: <101.30.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> Date: 28 Dec 92 07:20:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085 Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) Lines: 19