[meteorite-list] Earth Downgraded To Non-Planetary Status

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:16:03 -0500
Message-ID: <00a401c7434b$6dd91560$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

Darren,
Always [most always] silly fun. Many times[some times] insightful inquiry,
like the previous post. I'm awaiting replies from astrophysicist types with
a lot more mathematical skills than we generalists.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Earth Downgraded To Non-Planetary Status


> http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i14203
>
> First they downgraded Pluto. Then Uranus. Now according to SpaceStuff.Org,
> Earth
> is not only NOT a planet, it's not even an asteroid .. it's simply a great
> big
> rock floating around in space less important than Haley's comet (which
> SpaceStuff says may not even BE a comet).
>
> Why listen to SpaceStuff.Org?
>
> The world did in 2006 when astro-physicists worldwide agreed with
> SpaceStuff
> saying yes, Pluto is too small to be classified as a meteorite let alone a
> planet like Earth which, according to SpaceStuff USED to be a planet.
>
> SpaceStuff warns all humans on this rock to prepare themselves for their
> next
> revelation that the sun, once thought to be a star is simply a great big
> rock
> that somehow caught on fire. One SpaceStuff scientist said,
>
> "We've got doubts about the Milky Way galaxy even being a galaxy even. Our
> solar
> system as you know it never existed. All 9 planets are rocks .. orbiting
> another
> rock that somehow caught on fire."
>
> NASA astro-physicists disagree with SpaceStuff. Lincoln Waterson, the man
> in
> control of the Mars rovers asked them,
>
> "Mars clearly exists. We've got 13 billion dollar rovers ROVING AROUND up
> there.
> How can Mars not be a planet?"
>
> Ken Peterson of SpaceStuff replied saying,
>
> "You've got rovers roving around a great big giant red rock just like
> we've got
> humans roving around on this great big giant BLUE rock we call Earth."
>
> NASA denies rumors that SpaceStuff.org is asking them to downgrade the
> universe
> itself to being a dot on a page on the WWW.
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Received on Sun 28 Jan 2007 09:16:03 PM PST