Geeze all, I think I was taught in school (and through college lately
even) that we had nine planets and Pluto was one of them....
Where do you quote this "not for centuries" philosophy, not from the
general public.
Dave F.
Kashuba, Ontario, California wrote:
Chris and others,
Pluto has not been referred to as a planet for centuries .
John Kashuba
Ontario, California
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Peterson"
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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"
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To: "Dawn & Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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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