planetary defs and voyager anomalies

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Sawyer — 9/9/2005 8:54:18 AM (archived)

I think it is clear that we need to start using adjectives to further describe our noun of planet. This is normal with expanding knowledge. Air became oxygen, nitrogen,...and then isotopes... We now may use words like classic planets, inner planets, Kuiper Belt planets, planetoids, extrasolar planets, rogue planets. Some of these definitions and adjectives will become grey at times, because the universe operates more on a continuum of states that we often like to recognize with boundaries becoming quite fuzzy.

We read about voyager anomalies having to do with trajectory which seemed to break laws of gravity. Could some large KBO's explain the anomalies?

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Pluto's Not Only A Planet - It's The Dominant Class Of Planets - Mark Eby - 9/7/2005 12:04:44 AM
- planetary defs and voyager anomalies - Sawyer - 9/9/2005 8:54:18 AM
  - re: planetary defs and voyager anomalies - LJK - 9/9/2005 1:22:18 PM
- The news is cool, don't get me wrong - alcaray - 9/8/2005 1:04:38 AM
  - Alan Stern is probably... - Adam - 9/8/2005 10:30:58 AM
    - Thanks For Pointing Out What Alcaray Missed - Mark Eby - 9/9/2005 2:48:14 AM
      - What did I miss? - alcaray - 9/9/2005 4:09:57 PM
        
        That KBO's May Be Terrestrial Planets As Well As Ice Balls (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/10/2005 11:17:23 PM
        
        I said that's what I expeced in advance of the discovery - alcaray - 9/11/2005 3:11:52 PM
        
        Actually You Didn't Say That At All. - Mark Eby - 9/11/2005 7:27:43 PM
        
        Just Old Fashioned Enough To Expect People To Mean What They Say - Mark Eby - 9/11/2005 7:21:24 PM
        
        They aren't "Volatiles organized in bodies of varying sizes."??? - alcaray - 9/12/2005 2:49:39 PM
        
        Not Controversial, Just Not Accurate - Mark Eby - 9/12/2005 11:17:34 PM
        
        Would you buy: predominately volitiles? - alcaray - 9/13/2005 2:46:22 PM
        
        The Whole Topic Is Quibling - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 10:56:42 PM
        
        Agreed on the topic of planetary status quibbling - alcaray - 9/14/2005 2:53:17 PM
        
        Just curious.... - R.L. - 9/12/2005 11:44:26 PM
        
        ??? I See The Sense Of Humor Runs In The Family As Well - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 12:05:04 AM
        
        No antagonism... - R.L. - 9/13/2005 5:12:23 AM
        
        I'd Have Chuckled If I Took It Right - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 10:50:02 PM
      - There's a point... - Adam - 9/9/2005 12:28:51 PM
  - Planets Not Comets - Mark Eby - 9/8/2005 1:44:33 AM
    - Volatiles organized in bodies of varying sizes. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 3:28:52 PM
- Interesting implications - Robert - 9/7/2005 6:43:40 PM
  - Plaentoids with Satellites Web site - LJK - 9/14/2005 2:46:49 PM
    - Photometric Observations Constraining the Size, Shape, and Albedo of 2003 El61 - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:10:37 PM

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