[meteorite-list] Petition For a Pluto New Horizons Stamp

From: dorifry <dorifry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:58:45 -0500
Message-ID: <DC7724CC60F2439B9770C9D83CE8BF22_at_DoriPC>

Hey, watch it, I'm 5' 9 and 3/4"!

Seriously though, if you count all the other trans Neptunian objects, such
as Charon, Chaos, Deucalion, Huya, Ixion, Makemake, Orcus, Quaoar, Sedna,
Varuna and my personal favorite, Rhadamanthus, there are millions of
planets.

Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gary at webbers.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Petition For a Pluto New Horizons Stamp


> Gary, List,
>
> If it's not a planet, why do we call it a dwarf PLANET?
> Do you refer to everyone you know who is less than
> five-foot-ten as a "dwarf person"? So-and-so isn't a person;
> he's a dwarf person? Adjectives do not negate the thing
> they describe.
>
> So, we have dwarf planets, gas planets, rocky planets,
> etc, but they're ALL planets. I take the IAU at its literal
> word, not its irrational intent. As far as I am concerned,
> Pluto is a planet, Ceres is a planet, Eris is a planet,
> Makemake and Haumea are... You get the idea. Since
> Vesta (now that we've seen it) probably formed "round"
> and has been chipped away at ever since, it's a planet
> (and likely Pallas and Hygeia too).
>
> There are at least 23 planets, (despite the eccentric
> opinions of an Uruguayan cosmologist to whom I would
> suggest in reply that Brazil is a nation and Uruguay is
> only a dwarf nation).
>
> IAU: "A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient
> mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so
> that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round)
> shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither
> a star nor a satellite of a planet." I would add the phrase
> "unless distorted by dynamic equilibrium," a condition
> that unless added would eliminate Jupiter and Saturn
> and even the Earth as planets!
>
> Planet quarrels. Good times...
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary K. Foote" <gary at webbers.com>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 6:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Petition For a Pluto New Horizons Stamp
>
>
>> But Pluto isn't a planet anymore. Its a dwarf planet. Maybe they'll
>> make
>> really tiny stamps ;)
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Wed, February 1, 2012 11:46 pm, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Of course, in March 2015, if all goes well, the
>>> New Horizons mission will reach Pluto. Don't
>>> you think it will deserve a stamp of its own to
>>> correct that 1991 stamp when it gets there,
>>> in 2015?
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