Re: So. What, exactly, is a planet?

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:43:49 -0000

Plutonian Unknowns?


--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
<jmmccann_at_s...> wrote:
> FOP? (Friend of Pluto's)
>
> --J
>
> On Jul 30, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Elena Dent wrote:
>
> > Maybe it depends on whose reputation gets tarnished or burnished by
> > calling
> > an object a 'planet' or a 'something else'?
> >
> > If there are a lot of 'whatever they ares' out there about where
> > Pluto is,
> > around Pluto's size and in variously inclined orbits perhaps there
> > ought to
> > be a specific term for them that's different from 'planet'.
Received on 2005-07-31 07:43:53