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Re: The really dumb thing about the planetary classification conference

Subject: Re: The really dumb thing about the planetary classification conference
From: "Yusuf B Gursey"
Date: 30 Aug 2006 08:32:25 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Peacenik wrote:
> "Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1156789257.870332.125150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Harlan Messinger wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > the term was rejected, I forgot now about the replacement.
> 
> Plutino, IIRC.

I think so too.


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