Hi all - "plutonians"? I think not - pluton has a well defined geological (planetary) usage. "plutos", with Pluto being the first of the class, and no new word to remember, just add "s" and make the "P" a "p" -
easy enough, and clyde'ss friends can't be too upset with it - Hopefully this will all be over by thursday, for the time being... and we can get back to the formation of meteorite parent bodies, hunting, dealing, pricing... damn, I'm almost ready for another add from Chicago... and whatever happened to Michael Casper, who liquidated his holdings right before the torrent from NWA flooded the market, while telling us all he was going out of the dealing business for personal reasons? cagey, wasn't he? good hunting, Ed --- "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Doug and All, > > > 1. Since it seems only right to declare your > personal biases > first, I am a 12+ proponent and a firm believer (on > the basis > of faith and a few numerical approximations) that an > object > beyond Pluto and bigger than the planet Mercury > exists and > will be discovered. (Then, the Clasical Eight become > the Big > Seven and Mercury is a solar "asteroid"!) > > 2. I firmly agree with Ron Baalke (who's a > Pro-Eight) that > the cultural component of this dispute is a major, > maybe THE > major, consideration. This a great "opportunity" to > make science > look silly to the populace, something we really > don't need > right now. Once formed, public perception is hard to > change. > What we have to decide is what makes science look > sillier, > or less silly. > > 3. While I may have made snide remarks about the > IAU as > preferring to dally and postpone, this may well be a > time when > that is the best idea. Declare a cooling off period; > send it to another > committee. The whole vote issue popped up too > quickly, and it > may well be that there just hasn't been time (or > calm) enough for > everybody to think it through. > > 4. While you are undoubtedly correct, Doug, > about Latinate > terms being appropriate, the Latinate term for > "cold" has unfortunate > associations in American-English slang, where "frig" > is used as > a not-too-polite euphemism for an old Anglo-Saxon > verb with a > similar sound. It would be the source of as much > (more) classroom > giggling as the pronunciation of "Uranus." But > "cryo-" and > "cryonic" have widespread usage, popularly and > scientifically > (for that very reason, I suspect). > > 5. Even the guy who declared his love of Pluto > in the New > York Times (Susan's post) says of Pluto: "It's > mostly ice." > Everybody calls the "Plutonians" ICEBALLS when this > is > obviously and unequivocally WRONG. People on this > List > do it all the time; scientists who don't like > Pluonians as planets > do it (and they should know better). > > The density of Pluto is 2.08. Ice has a density > of 0.92. > Because water-ice is compressible and then converts > to a > number of polymorphic crystalline structures of > higher density, > depending on the size of the body. (IceIII is the > most likely, > with a density of 1.14.) But the pressures required > are very > great. > http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html > > But basically, a body with a density of 2.08 > (Pluto) is best > explained as containing 70% to 75% rock of density > 2.7 and > a mantle of mixed ices that is only the outer 10% to > 13% of > the planetary radius deep. (A shallow ice mantle > limits the > density of the ice.) That's a "mantle" if it's > differentiated, but > if it's just mixed, the compositional averages are > the same. > > The density of Ceres (2.03) is the same as > Pluto. Lots of > the Plutonians have similar densities. 2003EL61's > shape sets > a density range limited to 2.6 to 3.3 (like the > Earth's Moon, > a well-known rockball). It's 100% rockball -- no ice > at all > (except for the surface dusting). Pluto's a > rockball. Ceres > is a rockball. Can you say ROCKBALL, boys and girls? > > If a body is 70%+ rock, why keep calling it an > "iceball"? > Wassup with that? Because it's cold? Calling Pluto > an iceball > is like calling the Earth a dirtball. I look at > Earth's surface and > it's mostly dirt, so the planet Earth is mostly made > of dirt, right? > > Please, enough with the "iceball"! > > > Sterling K. Webb > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MexicoDoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>; > "Sterling_K_Webb" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:47 AM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean > Toward Eight Planets > > > > Hello Sterling, why not throw Pluto a bone like > they are trying to do? > > > > On the other hand, nice word - but we've seen that > nothing is "most > > correct" > > in this business. Cryo- is Greek, by the way. > What ever happened to > > TNOs > > (Trans-Neptunian Objects). > > > > My "correct" latinized preference, with nice > alliterations for poetic use, > > would be: > > FRIGOPHILE > > > > Scientifically, this world captures the accepted > hypotheses that these > > planets thrive like rabbits out there and if > brought in closer to the Sun > > would croak. > > > > Other possibilities are: > > Frigoliths > > Frigolithospheres > > > > Best wishes, Doug > > > >> The most correct technical term would be the > >> jawbreaker > >> CRYOSILICATE object. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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