Chris and others,
Pluto has not been referred to as a planet for centuries .
John Kashuba
Ontario, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers to Decide What Makes a Planet
Not at all. There is a difference between the public misusing something
that already has a formal definition (meteor), and the scientific
establishment adopting a new definition for a word that has been used in a
certain way for centuries (planet)- a definition at odds with how the word
is now used.
I say come up with a new word. Then the planets are, and always will be,
what they are now- the nine bodies from Mercury to Pluto. And scientists
won't have to spend the next 100 years qualifying what they mean by planet
every time they talk with the lay public.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dawn & Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers to Decide What Makes a Planet
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:47:39 -0400, "Dawn & Gerald Flaherty"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, by the same "give up on defining a planet because a planet is what
the general public says it
is" logic, we might as well start calling meteorites meteors, because the
general public tends to
call meteorites meteors. Or we should accept that apes are monkeys,
because the general public
calls them monkeys. Or that pterasaurs are flying dinosaurs, because the
general public calls them
flying dinosaurs.
I say come up with a reasonable definition, and if that disagrees with
what the "general public"
thinks, then tell the general public to go sit on a bunsen burner.
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