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- 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
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- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu
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- JC> Is anyone willing to demote Pluto/Charon to asteroid status,
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- 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.
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- JC>or
- >think about the use of the term "worlds" that some seem to favor for
- >large bodies even if not orbiting the Sun?
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- 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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