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- From: cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Joe Cain)
- Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.185646.20146@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
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- Summary: help on nomenclature
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- Organization: Florida State University Geology Dept.
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 18:56:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.193205.1@stsci.edu> gawne@stsci.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.193342.29953@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>,
- >billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
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- >> My definition of asteriod is: any body that orginated in the
- >> "asteriod belt" (between Mars and Jupiter). etc etc
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- Help! It would be useful to learn what are the "official" uses
- of the words according the IAU (and IUGG?). I have a hard enough time helping
- students try to keep meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid straight when
- there seems to be general disagreement on the distinctions between the
- meaning of the words asteroids, comets and, yes, planets. I posted
- this question recently in sci.astro but so far no one has come to the
- rescue.
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- Is anyone willing to demote Pluto/Charon to asteroid status,
- change Chiron from "asteroid" to comet, buck public sentiment to
- avoid naming a body orbiting mostly a little beyond Pluto "Planet X", 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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- Joseph Cain cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu
- cain@fsu.bitnet scri::cain
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