All: 10 Hygiea (cvorrect spelling, though sometimes seen as Hygeia). Nice asteroid (on the "list" for dwarf planet), looked at it lots of times (C-class).
Larry Quoting Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://www.spaceweather.com/ > > SpaceWeather.com > September 12, 2006 > > 18 PLANETS: Have you ever heard of the planet Hygea? It's > listed in the 1850 Annual of Scientific Discovery along > with 17 other planets: > > [Full Text Graphic] > http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2006/13sep06/Pollock1.jpg > Courtesy Joe Pollock, Appalachian State University. > > In those days, large asteroids such as Hygea, Ceres and > Vesta were widely deemed planets. They appeared so in > textbooks and scientific journals. Adding asteroids to the > other known planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, > Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, gave a grand total of 18. Imagine > the mnemonic: "My Very Educated [insert ten adjectives here] > Mother Just Served Us Noodles." > > The asteroids were eventually demoted. It was a long, > drawn-out affair, marked by decades of disagreement and > confusion. (Sound familiar?) By 1900, however, order was > restored to the Solar System: the planet count was down to > eight. > > And then came Pluto... > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
