For Duty And Plutonomy!!!!

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johns805

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First, it was Pluto....Could your planet be next? Hmmm? <br />Join the rising tide of people of good will!!! Demote The IAU!!! To The Barricades!!! The solar system you save could be your own!!! />>><br /><br />http://www.plutoisaplanet.org/
 
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MeteorWayne

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Or the solar sytem that is better defined is your own.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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alokmohan

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Clyde Tombaugh is a national prestige?Surprised to see it as a national issue.Who is the opponent I dont understand.It fact I fail to understand how a scientific difference of opinion causes public outcry?When pluto was discovered Tombaugh thoght it to be planet X of Lowell.Subsequently it was realised that it is not more massive than Jupiter.In fact it is so small and it is farthest from planet X.Why family of Lowell is being dragged for narrow egoistic reasons is not clear.The demotion of pluto is being talked of since long,Tobough never said anything against it.Take science as science.More over science is International.It is nobodts national issue.News report of CNN does not seem to be of good taste.
 
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kheider

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<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>thoght it to be planet X. Subsequently it was realised that it is not more massive than Jupiter.<br /><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />They first thought Pluto would be 6.6x more massive then the Earth. (Jupiter is 317x more masive then the Earth) So when Pluto turned out to be only 1/500th the mass of the Earth, that meant the original mathematical assumptions that Pluto was affecting Neptune's orbit were off by a factor of 3,300!<br /><br />And now that we know Pluto is in a belt of many brothers, well it was time to re-classify him as such.<br /><br />-- Kevin Heider
 
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alokmohan

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The public outcry makes no sense.It might be concoctioon of interested circles.Let us honor Lowell and decry petty politics.
 
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enigma10

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The definition of a planet must be enforced and supported. If pluto falls out of that definition, then it is demoted from planethood by definition. If you want to see pluto be a planet, come up with a better definition then IAU.<img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"<font color="#333399">An organism at war with itself is a doomed organism." - Carl Sagan</font></em> </div>
 
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