| Subject: | The really dumb thing about the planetary classification conference |
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| From: | Harlan Messinger |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:24:56 -0400 |
| Newsgroups: | sci.lang |
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A proposal before the IAU conference that ended a few days ago was to
categorize Pluto, Charon, and a couple of other bodies as "plutons".
Never mind the fact that they rejected it given that "pluton" turned out
already to be a geological term: How was this idea sustainable for any
period of time given the (presumable) participation of astronomers who
speak languages in which "Pluton" is already the name for Pluto?
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