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Date: 28 Aug 2006 17:29:45
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Subject: Pluto needs your help.
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Please excuse the interruption to normal discussion but we need your
help.
As you will be well aware, the International Astronomers Union, last
week stripped Pluto of its status as a planet - meaning that we now
have eight planets on the solar system.
Details of the events can be found here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5283956.stm
The scientific community has started its own internal petition to have
the decision reversed, but there is also a petition that anyone can
sign;
http://pleasesavepluto.org
If you feel strongly that Pluto should not have been demoted from a
planet, then I encourage you to voice your opinion and to contact your
friends and family to do the same.
Collectively, we can make a difference.
Thanks,
Glenn.
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Date: 28 Aug 2006 18:23:48
From: Randy Roy
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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Glenn.Barlow@gmail.com wrote:
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> If you feel strongly that Pluto should not have been demoted from a
> planet, then I encourage you to voice your opinion and to contact your
> friends and family to do the same.
>
I've always considered Pluto a poser, a second rate planet. It's too
cold, it's orbit is too eliptical, it's too small. Rather than clean up
its orbit, it just trashes up Neptune's orbit. It's like an unwelcome
relative who has overstayed its welcome.
Good riddance Pluto! May all references to your former planethood be
striken from software, books, orrerys and planospheres everywhere. A
pox on Walt Disney for popularizing your name.
Jupiter? Neptune? Venus? Saturn? Now them's planets.
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 10:48:51
From: Per Erik Jorde
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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"Randy Roy" <wrroy@bellsouth.net > writes:
> I've always considered Pluto a poser, a second rate planet.
There is nothing second rate about it. Planet or not, Pluto remains a
very interesting body. I shall make a point of hanging along until
2015 to get a close-up look at it from the New Horizons spacecraft.
pej
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Per Erik Jorde
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 01:18:32
From: Florian
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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http://pleasesavepluto.org/vote/
I voted NO. ;-)
.Florian
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 01:01:14
From: CeeBee
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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Glenn.Barlow@gmail.com wrote in sci.astro.amateur:
<snip >
Pluto needs no assistance, but surely some people in both the "scientific
community" and in the "concerned" citizenry urgently do.
> Collectively, we can make a difference.
What difference? To obstruct ongoing insights?
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CeeBee
*** Democracy is not a spectator sport ***
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 06:36:50
From: RMOLLISE
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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Glenn.Barlow@gmail.com wrote:
> Please excuse the interruption to normal discussion but we need your
> help.
>
> As you will be well aware, the International Astronomers Union, last
> week stripped Pluto of its status as a planet - meaning that we now
> have eight planets on the solar system.
>
> Details of the events can be found here;
>
Hi:
You're all fired up, but don't even know that it's the International
_Astronomical_ Union? Might we suspect then, that you haven't even
really read the resolution? Pluto doesn't need your help, anyway. It
will continue to be right where it's always been, and you can call it
anything you want, including "Mickey" or "Goofy" if you so desire.
;-)
Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
and
_The Urban Astronomer's Guide_
<http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland/index.htm >
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sct-user >
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 06:25:08
From: Randy Roy
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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Per Erik Jorde wrote:
> "Randy Roy" <wrroy@bellsouth.net> writes:
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> > I've always considered Pluto a poser, a second rate planet.
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> There is nothing second rate about it.
Apparently the IAU thought it was second rate: >)
But seriously, I agree that Pluto is a facinating Solar System object
and its status as such will be unchanged by the antics of the IAU.
Still, the IAU antics and those responding emotionally to it, have
provided much needed mid-summer (or winter) comedy relief.
Randy
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 06:42:58
From: Paul Schlyter
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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In article <1156811384.823032.51510@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com >,
<Glenn.Barlow@gmail.com > wrote:
> The scientific community has started its own internal petition to have
> the decision reversed, but there is also a petition that anyone can
> sign;
>
> http://pleasesavepluto.org
>
> If you feel strongly that Pluto should not have been demoted from a
> planet, then I encourage you to voice your opinion and to contact your
> friends and family to do the same.
>
> Collectively, we can make a difference.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glenn.
Why not also start a few other petitions? Such as:
http://pleasesaveSun.org
http://pleasesaveMoon.org
http://pleasesaveCeres.org
http://pleasesavePallas.org
http://pleasesaveJuno.org
http://pleasesaveVesta.org
??? Just like Pluto, all these bodies once had a planetary status which
later was taken away from them.
Have fun!
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Date: 28 Aug 2006 21:25:23
From: Curtis Croulet
Subject: Re: Pluto needs your help.
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This is absurd! Pluto shouldn't have been considered a "planet" in the
first place.
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Curtis Croulet
Temecula, California
33°27'59"N, 117°05'53"W
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