Hello List:
Fun question: Will the "rules" potentially affect whether we can call a
Lunar meteorite a planetary meteorite (current use of "Lunar and Planetary"
as in LPS, notwithstanding)? How about a Vestoid meteorite?.
Also I am really relieved that my objections to Dr. Lebofsky about orbits
Oh, OK.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Larry Lebofsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteo
Dooh! better rename that one.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All
On Fri, 18 Au
Probably lots
of time, during which Committee-paced time, more will become clear.
Committees will help people settle their minds, adjust, get right with
the world...
Committees are wonderful things. And this may really be
one of those times when we need them, for just the reasons we
usually
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:37:34 -0700, you wrote:
>history community. These are people who know the issues, who know the science
>(the words and concepts are far from arbitrary),
I realized something tonight that I knew but for some reason, it hadn't stuck me
before: the word "pluton" already has
Hi Doug:
I never thought that I would admit to agreeing completely with Sterling (just
kidding), but I am.
I have googled Kripke's credentials and I do not see how he would add anything
to the committee. As I said before and I will say again, a lot of thought went
into the formation of this co
As long as Rob Britt quotes me correctly and not out of context, I am happy to
be "worked" by him.
By the way, there are a good number of "real" astronomers who are making very
strong comments about this resolution. I am not sure that I have ever seen so
many egos coming out (I trust me and the
motives, it's
only fair I print an "expose" of my own petty biases...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P. Grondine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
Sent:
it: the natural inclination of the
> Executive Committee
> is to postpone. They'll already done that... twice.
> And the situation
> didn't go away; it got worse. But, rather than
> institutionalize the
> division, they may want not to have any vote. But
> Gingerich seems
> to think there will be some vote (and he would know,
>
Darren wrote: "BBC interview with the woman/former girl who named Pluto that
I ran across."
Doug had written: "further I trust you. If you happen to have the British
"girl's" email address sure I'll send a message to further vindicate you and
Darren."
Hi Darren, if the woman formerly known as th
t 18, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All
Hi Sterling, you really don't have to disagree with me because you have
edited an old message of mine to the point of completely changing its
meaning - with a new meaning I disagree with as well..
Here's w
Hi Sterling, you really don't have to disagree with me because you have
edited an old message of mine to the point of completely changing its
meaning - with a new meaning I disagree with as well..
Here's what I said: "The IAU Committee has utterly failed by not including a
committee
member of the
ize the
division, they may want not to have any vote. But Gingerich seems
to think there will be some vote (and he would know, I think).
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "MexicoDoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:37:48 -0500, you wrote:
>further I trust you. If you happen to have the British "girl's" email
>address sure I'll send a message to further vindicate you and Darren.
Sorry to keep on and on about this, but here is a BBC interview with the
woman/former girl who named Pluto
Hello Larry and Darren, OK, I checked your facts and I'll stuff the idea
about the Disney character where the Sun don't shine and it belongs. And
further I trust you. If you happen to have the British "girl's" email
address sure I'll send a message to further vindicate you and Darren.
As for the
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:53:50 -0500, you wrote:
>P.P.D. Pluto was actually named after the Disney Dog character by a British
>child
Not only that, but a British child with precognition! (How else could she know
that the dog would be named Pluto in the future?)
"Pluto is also the name of the Roma
Hi Doug:
I am not an expert on dynamics, but the center of mass is the center of mass.
If you have two objects in orbit (revolve, not rotate) around the center of
mass, if one were larger, its orbit would have to be elliptical in order for
the center of mass to go outside to inside of it.
We a
"> and the Charon aspect specifically for going too far in essentially
> recasting too many small round objects as full-fledged planets.
Eventually,
> with new discoveries, there would likely be hundreds."
Hello Again, The Charon and the "rotating around center of mass outside the
larger body (Plu
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>For example, brown dwarfs are low-mass stars that fail to produce the
>thermonuclear fusion that powers real stars.
Interesting side note on this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5260008.stm
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060818_planet_newprop.html
Pluto May Get Demoted After All
By Robert Roy Britt
space.com
18 August 2006
The effort to define the term "planet" took a fresh twist today as two
competing proposals were put forth at a meeting of astronomers in Prague.
In one
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