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"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Harlan Messinger wrote:
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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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> the term was rejected, I forgot now about the replacement.
Plutino, IIRC.
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