Re: The really dumb thing about the planetary classification conference

["Yusuf B Gursey"]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

the term was rejected, I forgot now about the replacement.


> 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?