[GZG] No more pizzas!

It's official, Pluto is a 'dwarf planet', and no longer a planet. Dozens of
mnemonics must be re-written.

US public radio reports that Pluto is unavailable for comment; I'm more
concerned about the owners of www.nineplanes.org...

The_Beast

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Doug Evans wrote:
Dozens of
> mnemonics must be re-written.

Pluto has been cut down! Goofy is running scared...

> At 8:35 AM -0500 8/24/06, Doug Evans wrote:
Dozens of
> mnemonics must be re-written.

The Fungi From Yuggoth are unconcerned I'm sure...

Actually, unless the press has grossly misquoted the wording of the
definition, Earth and Jupiter aren't planets either. The plank of it that
demoted Pluto is, they have to "clear the neighborhood of space around their
orbit" to be a full planet.

If that's the definition, even _Jupiter_ isn't a planet.  What's the
count on trojan asteroids sharing its orbit now, fifty thousand? You heard it

here first, folks, Jupiter has been redefined as a "dwarf planet". Awesome
stuff.

(I really hope that SPACE.com and the regular media have left something
critical out as to what "clearing the neighborhood" means, because my
understanding is that at least four of the eight "planets" left behind share
their orbits with numerous asteroids. So I'm not sure at all what about

that is supposed to apply to Pluto and not Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune.)

E

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G'day,

> Actually, unless the press has grossly misquoted the wording of the

I'm still laughing over the fact any heavenly bodies outside our solar system
can't be planets... they don't orbit the *sun* (as required by the new
definition)...

Maybe this is all an evil Illuminati consipiracy (haven't had one of those
mentioned on the list for a while) to increase available funding by slashing
astronomy budgets ("extrasolar planet research, what extrasolar planets?")

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