Tuesday, August 02, 2005


So, no one's posted anything about that 10th planet yet. Is it big enough to be what they're looking for?

5 Comments:

Blogger mwal said...

Ah, but if Pluto is not a planet, then why does the periodic table go "Uranium - Neptunium - Plutonium" ?

:-)

8/03/2005 09:31:00 AM  
Blogger Justin said...

Once Pluto is no longer a planet, we'll just redefine the periodic table. Plutonium becomes Kuiperium in honor of all the massive KBOs and the IAEA scrambles to rewrite all the nuclear non-proliferation treaties to rely on precise scientific descriptions (i.e. atomic number) rather than soething transient like element names.

8/03/2005 11:02:00 AM  
Blogger acg said...

Or, instead of deciding that Pluto isn't really a planet, there could be lots of really small planets! :)- (Is there an actual scientific definition for what constitutes a planet?)

8/03/2005 08:20:00 PM  
Blogger Vincent said...

As an astronomer, I've never understood the fascination with whether big rocks are planets or not. There's a virtual continuum of planetlike objects out there in all sorts of sizes, and drawing a line in the sand and saying that these are planets and those are not is so arbitrary.

8/03/2005 11:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lame!

8/04/2005 12:19:00 AM  

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