[meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi,

    My apologies to all the Scots on the List!
Pleaze, willya poot doon thos claymores 'n
leave a man ta speak?

    This just in:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article1219495.ece

    The IAU proposal for 12 planets is as follows:
1. Ceres 'cause it's big and round and orbits the Sun,
2. 2003UB313 ("Xena") 'cause it's big and round and orbits the Sun,
3. Charon, Pluto's Moon, 'cause it's big and round and orbits the Sun
and constitutes along with Pluto a DOUBLE PLANET system!

    All other planetary bodies have to apply for membership
and present credentials, at some future date.

    Still think the vote's a toss-up.

    I predict the IAU will get some really nasty letters from the
Luna City Chamber of Commerce, demanding the the Earth-Moon
System be recognized as a DOUBLE PLANET, since it meets
all the criteria applied to Pluto-Charon System.

    Those guys up there are, well, Loonie...


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>; "Meteorite Mailing List" 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12


> Hi, Ron and List
>
>    Just WHAT are those Scotsmen drinking?!!
>    "The other plutons are Charon, currently described
> as a moon of Pluto..."
>    Please tell me the IAU is not going to name a
> satellite as a planet!! Chaos! Confusion! Heresy!
>    It's just a shame that the bottle got to The Scotsman
> before the news did... I hope.
>
>    Spoze he meant CHIRON?
>
> Sterling
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