[meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 18 15:51:26 2006
Message-ID: <1e6ce2tgr49j82r75aahogq69ti4amnaso_at_4ax.com>

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:36:14 -0400, you wrote:

>Apologies, if this link was posted previously.
>
>Some nice, high resolution graphics and a video fly-by, relative to the
>on-going debate/discussion...
>
>http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html

Thanks for supplying these. I've seen thumbnail sized copies of them included
in news stories before and did a little digging looking for the full images, but
wasn't successful. This image kind of confuses me, though:

http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/screen/iau0601c.jpg

It shows 2003 EL61 as highly distorted in shape, but shows it as a "planet
candidate", but by their own proposal it wouldn't be concidered a planet if it
had that non-hydrostatic equilibrium shape.
Received on Fri 18 Aug 2006 03:52:31 PM PDT


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