Comments on: Why Not Wait Til The Nice Lady Dies https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26163 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:48:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26163 That sure is one goofy planet…

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26115 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:46:12 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26115 none of this would be a problem if they’d gone with her first suggestion = GOOFY

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26082 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:11:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26082 “…and cartoon dog”. And I think it might be the latter that’s slowing them down. Disnety is notoriously litigious.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26040 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:19:50 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26040 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_planet

says of a similar clause (“dominant in its immediate neighborbood”) that such “definition would leave only eight planets in our solar system, relegating Pluto to the status of minor planet.”

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26039 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:01:22 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26039 Clearly not. Anyway, their reasons why the sun is not a planet doesn’t convince me.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26038 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:44:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26038 Wouldn’t “larger than the sum of all other bodies in a similar orbit” be enought o knock out Pluto these days?

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By: Martin Skidmore https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/comment-page-1#comment-26036 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:14:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/why-not-wait-til-the-nice-lady-dies/#comment-26036 The Hayden Planetarium don’t get to decide! There has been much debate in the International Astronomical Union about this for ages, and we are promised an authoritative new definition of the word ‘planet’ this September. I think they are trying for one that maintains the status quo as much as possible, which indeed tells you something about the scientific value of the term these days. Front-runner, I believe, is something like ‘Body orbiting a star, more or less spherical because of gravity, larger than the sum of all other bodies in a similar orbit’.

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