Hi Tracy, Now that frindles are sadly feeling a little passé, our English
teacher fave the Dangerous Grangerous is ever on the ball pointing out to
you with great pride, her pringles tapping away at the frinboard,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruton
Best, St. Nick
Tracy wrote:
Hi all:
This is why there is an IAU nomenclature committee. It prevents chaos when
naming asteroids, comets, satellites, and now planets, I guess.
Larry,
asteroid 3439 Lebofsky
Quoting Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:59:55 -0400, you wrote:
Oh... Why name the
Greetings All,
Thought I would jump in all this. For those in favor of changing the
status of Pluto (as if we have any voice in the matter),
I would recommend reading Clyde's book Out of the Darkness the Planet
Pluto Today's generation seems to like to try and change history and
what went on
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:16:51 -0400, you wrote:
I am in favor of letting the scientific bodies decide this as long as
they are fairly unanimous about it. Clyde was a very nice man and this
was his claim to fame. I know he would be sad if this major discovery of
that time were to be taken from
Hi, All,
If the new system passes the vote, we've got some
naming to do!
Larry Lebofsky wrote (off-list):
We need another female planet (not sure Xena counts).
There is one glaringly obvious classical divinity name for
2003UB313 -- ERIS, the Greek goddess of DISCORD! She
started the
: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:10 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES
Hi, All,
If the new system passes the vote, we've got some
naming to do!
Larry Lebofsky wrote (off-list):
We need another female planet (not sure Xena counts).
There is one glaringly obvious
, August 17, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES
Sterling, et. al.,
I know you're looking for a female name, but if we're going to have
additional planets to contend with, I think we need a planet named Bob.
Dave
- Original Message -
From: Sterling K
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:59:55 -0400, you wrote:
Oh... Why name the planets after a god/godess? What's wrong with Bernhard,
Mary, Ann, Richard, Mike, etc. etc.
Tradition, I suppose. But if they name too many objects, they may have to start
looking for other sources. Like maybe naming them from
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