From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:45:46 -0600
No, they don't have the authority to redefine words that are in common
usage and found in ordinary dictionaries. That is quite different from
defining the proper name of bodies, craters, etc. Their definitions are
more akin to recommendations than anything binding; I can quite legally
call any astronomical object anything I want; of course, it probably won't
be accepted by many!
For myself, unless there is something huge and spectacular hiding out there,
I propose we call all the trans-Neptunian ice-and-dirtballs "crutons" (as
several List members have suggested), lose Pluto as a planet (for strict
interpretations), and stop throwing monkey doo-doo. :D
Anyone here read a kids' book by Andrew Clements, called _Frindle_?
Ver-r-r-y enlightening.
Tracy Latimer (the Librarian-in-training)
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