"People were probably wondering: If they take away Pluto, is Rhode Island next?" Binzel quipped. "There are as many opinions about Pluto as there are astronomers. But Pluto has gravity on its side. By the physics of our proposed definition, Pluto makes it by a long shot."
(From Fox News, in one of those maddening articles where I couldn't find another reference to "Binzel" or who he is. If you find one, please let me know; it's probably there somewhere.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208644,00.html
Go to the link to see what the astronomers are considering now. Can they do that??? Just change things we had to memorize for grade school?
18 comments:
Feel free to post your ways to remember the new line-up........ (it is in the article, although not official yet).
Man! I guess I'm just old.
my very elderly mother
just skipped...uh...noticing professors?
thank you, thank you.
You don't value your place in the will much, do you?
%D
haha. I was pretty pround of that one. come on.
No, I really thought it was very clever. What is %D? Hey, is that a smiley?
yes a laughing smiley
I need to start thinking more abstractly.
guess so
this thread is dying
that is sad
See, we could go Dr. Seuss on this:
Ned, Ned, de* thread is dead.
It is so sad.
Go tell your dad.
(*This word borrowed from a different set of comments. Apparently it is a word with many uses, already, and it's new.)
Someone else may take over.
Tom, Tom, de thread is gone.
It is so sad,
Go tell yo momma
Dr. Seuss would cry tears of joy. Well, okay, possibly not joy. But possibly.
Ben, Ben...sigh.
yes, he would
So I was reading Grace one of her little science book, and there they were: 9 planets with their names listed, from Mercury to (sob) Pluto. I didn't know how to handle it. "It is so sad, Go tell yo momma."
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