[meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

[Gerald Flaherty]

Dooh! better rename that one.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:37:34 -0700, you wrote:

>history community. These are people who know the issues, who know the 
>science
>(the words and concepts are far from arbitrary),

I realized something tonight that I knew but for some reason, it hadn't 
stuck me
before: the word "pluton" already has a use in science.  It is a "Body of 
magma
which has solidified beneath the earth".  I've been on a few of them, and 
can
even see one from my house when I find the right gap between the trees (this
one: http://www.shutterfreaks.com/gallery/album152/DSC_4055, photo not 
mine).

So it makes me wonder-- does one field of science try to avoid reusing a 
term
with an established specific meaning in another field of science (and would 
some
far future geologist be looking for plutons on Plutons?)
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