On Aug 5, 2015, at 1:26 PM, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
(Fred wrote) >> ...And pluto is no longer a planet. Give us (New Horizons team) a couple years on that. I’ll guess that even the IAU is going to realize the error of their ways by the time all is said and done. > No, he's a dog (could not resist). :-) I have heard a lot of ballyhoo about Pluto disovered by Americans, first explored by American spacecraft, etc. etc. Oddly, not as much about its being named by a Briton (Venetia Phair, nee Burney). FWIW, I was thinking about the (apparently mythical) pound-weight pint. And aware the approximation wasn’t good even to three significant figures, but I also guessed that after disposing of the test mass, nobody would care much about that third significant figure (as Fred points out)! - Mark