[meteorite-list] Planet definition
From: richard rumble <magic2u_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:51 2004 Message-ID: <9817107.1079548188167.JavaMail.root_at_fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">So... Here is how I explain it to the elementary school kids I talk with about the solor system... since the Pluto Planet Debate comes up all the time....</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman">Consider how the solor system formed.... The Forces that acted on the matter were all farily consistant... and 4 bodies formed in very close to the sun..... all iron/nickle core and small rocky bodies.... THEN.. we have four VERY LARGE gasious bodies.... that all formed WAY WAY away from the sun.... and THEN... even farther out.... we have a small rocky body.. PLUTO... </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman">SO.... it is reasonable to assume that if all the forces in effect were the same or very near the same.... PLUTO should be either a LARGE GAS planet that is very far away... or a small rocky planet in close! </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman">The probability that Pluto is a forign object that got sucked into the orbit of the Sun?? Is it a Planet? Is it a chunk of Ice from the Kuiper Belt? Guess we better get out there and do some investigation! Tilll then... do some research of your own... and make up your own conclusions! </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My goal here is to have the kids begin to THINK about things and not just take the popular answer and parrot it back.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just My 2 cents.....</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face="Times New Roman">Richard</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY> Received on Wed 17 Mar 2004 01:29:48 PM PST |
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