On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:40:35 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >Here's an interesting history of the first asteroids: > >http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html > >For roughly 50 years until the 1850's, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta >were all considered planets.
Scandalous, how those scientists were willing to hurt the feelings of poor dead Guiseppe Piazzi, Heinrich Olbers, and, uh... whoever it was discoved Juno and Vesta! Shouldn't science have enshrined their misunderstandings as their legacies? Great illustration about half-way down the page: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/Sizes/sizessmall.gif ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
