Re: [LEAPSECS] Worlds apart

2014-10-30 Thread Ian Batten via LEAPSECS
On 28 Oct 2014, at 00:46, Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu wrote: Their actions should aspire to agree with physical reality. Anything which alludes (whether intentionally or unintentionally) to Feynman's magisterial dissection of the Shuttle programme is OK by me! For a successful

[LEAPSECS] Worlds apart

2014-10-27 Thread Rob Seaman
To return to a message from several days ago, Steve Allen wrote: If I ask the question Is Pluto a planet? I know where I can find the authoritative answer. The proceedings from the IAU GA in 2006 make it clear that the answer is no. When Pluto was demoted, the asteroid Ceres was promoted to