Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-13 Thread Mark Ford
a bloody again! Lol. Mark Ford -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sterling K. Webb Sent: 13 June 2008 04:39 To: Jerry; Meteorite List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID! Hi, Jerry, List The Plutoid page

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid! Hi All: I will probably be going to the August meeting in Maryland

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-12 Thread Jerry
Flaherty - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:14 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID! Hi, All, First, what does the suffix -oid MEAN? http

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID! OK. It will no doubt come as a great surprise to the Executive Committee of the IAU (henceforth referred to as Executoids) Sterling, you never fail to charm your way into a most subtle form of humor

[meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!

2008-06-11 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080611-plutoid-planets.html Pluto Now Called a Plutoid By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 11 June 2008 10:30 am ET Updated 2:00 p.m. ET Pluto's years-long identity crisis just got more complex today. The International Astronomical Union has

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!

2008-06-11 Thread lebofsky
Hi All: I will probably be going to the August meeting in Maryland, so it will be interesting to see how this new terminology goes over. So everything round and icy (maybe) is a Plutoid, which means Pluto-like. Since we don't know what Pluto is (at least what to define it as), this really makes

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Peterson
Subject: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid! Rather than resistance to 'plutoid,' I think we'll just be hearing groans, said Stephen J. Kortenkamp, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. __ http

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!

2008-06-11 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:10:25 -0700 (MST), you wrote: So everything round and icy (maybe) is a Plutoid, which means Pluto-like. Since we don't know what Pluto is (at least what to define it as), this really makes a whole lot of sense. NOT! http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/mfds.jpg

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- Plutoid!

2008-06-11 Thread lebofsky
Dear Darren: I am sorry that I have to disagree with what you depict in your photo. The Death Star did a pretty good job of clearing out its neighborhood either by blowing things up or drawing them in with a tractor beam! :o) Larry On Wed, June 11, 2008 2:21 pm, Darren Garrison wrote: On Wed,