Bid to solve dispute over planets
24-09-2005, 23:41
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Bid to solve dispute over planets
I can see this getting very nasty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4273424.stm
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Under this scheme, Earth and Venus would be known as terrestrial planets, Saturn and Jupiter as gas giants and Pluto as a Trans-Neptunian planet.
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Like I'm going to remember all that... 
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25-09-2005, 00:24
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Re: Bid to solve dispute over planets
Whats up with simple trekkie Class M etc for planets?
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25-09-2005, 01:36
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Re: Bid to solve dispute over planets
I just find it amusing they needed a team of experts to resolve this! Shouldn't they just have a certain criteria that makes a planet a planet?
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25-09-2005, 11:35
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Re: Bid to solve dispute over planets
Seeing as we arent going to live on over half of these planets, I cant see why we need to do this.
Lets just leave them how they are.
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25-09-2005, 11:50
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Re: Bid to solve dispute over planets
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I can see this getting very nasty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4273424.stm
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Under this scheme, Earth and Venus would be known as terrestrial planets, Saturn and Jupiter as gas giants and Pluto as a Trans-Neptunian planet.
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Ummmmmm just what would Neptune be known as?
Why cant they just be known as Balls of Rock, after all isnt Earth the 3rd Rock From The Sun. 
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25-09-2005, 13:16
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Re: Bid to solve dispute over planets
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Originally Posted by MetaWraith
Ummmmmm just what would Neptune be known as?
Why cant they just be known as Balls of Rock, after all isnt Earth the 3rd Rock From The Sun. |
Not to mention Mercury, Mars or Uranus?
However, they may not all be balls of rock. The gas giants may not have rocky cores at all. ;-)
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