[meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

[almitt]

Greetings All,

Thought I would jump in all this. For those in favor of changing the 
status of Pluto (as if we have any voice in the matter),
I would recommend reading Clyde's book "Out of the Darkness the Planet 
Pluto" Today's generation seems to like to try and change history and 
what went on back in the good old days. History is history so why not 
leave it where it is. Pluto is probably a large belt object but the 
first one found. Add that to the textbooks but allow for the planet 
status to remain. Really until we go there and take a look around at 
Pluto and some of the other objects we may be wrong again. Lets make 
sure we know what we think we know.

I am in favor of letting the scientific bodies decide this as long as 
they are fairly unanimous about it. Clyde was a very nice man and this 
was his claim to fame. I know he would be sad if this major discovery of 
that time were to be taken from him. How would the average person feel 
to make such a monumental discovery similar to this in our age, only to 
have some airheads of the modern day try to strip it from you?? Let 
sleeping dogs lay, and let discoveries remain what they were.

--AL Mitterling


>Tracy wrote:
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>"For myself, unless there is something huge and spectacular hiding out
>there, I propose we call all the trans-Neptunian ice-and-dirtballs "crutons"
>(as several List members have suggested), lose Pluto as a planet (for strict
>interpretations), and stop throwing monkey doo-doo. :D
>Anyone here read a kids' book by Andrew Clements, called _Frindle_?
>Ver-r-r-y enlightening.
>Tracy Latimer (the Librarian-in-training) "
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