[meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 23 22:51:20 2006
Message-ID: <00bd01c6c728$22fe53b0$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

Suspend Jugement. Hold the Count.
Let's await the technology to allow us to count #'s in Other Solar, errr,
Star Systems.
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets


> In a message dated 8/23/2006 4:38:36 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> 2. I firmly agree with Ron Baalke (who's a Pro-Eight) that
> the cultural component of this dispute is a major, maybe THE
> major, consideration. This a great "opportunity" to make science
> look silly to the populace, something we really don't need
> right now. Once formed, public perception is hard to change.
> What we have to decide is what makes science look sillier,
> or less silly.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have been reading all those posts about the 8 - 9 - 12 - 1000000000
> planets, and trying to make sense out of it.
>
> Yes, the cultural component is a major consideration.
>>From the time I was a little girl going to the Planetarium in Paris, I was
> taught that a Planet was a sphere orbiting the Sun. And that there were 9
> of
> them. There could be more, we simply didn't know enough to tell one way
> or the
> other. And the masses that weren't round? they were Asteroids. Period.
> And
> that covered the whole thing. No discussion as to composition, angle of
> the
> orbit, number of moons, or distance from the Sun.
>
> To me that still covers it. And that makes perfect sense. Regardless of
> numbers.
>
> Now why can't the members of the IAU see it that way? aren't they simply
> lacking Common Sense?
>
> Vox Populi.
>
> Anne M. Black
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> IMPACTIKA_at_aol.com
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> www.IMCA.cc
>
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