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Rumors about naming "planets"
Inside Planets: planets, Outside Planets: planots...
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8/14/2006 6:12:27 PM
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Rumors about naming "planets"
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Raoul
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8/13/2006 6:31:49 PM
re: Rumors about naming "planets"
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BRFelix
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8/15/2006 8:26:54 PM
How about just good ol' Planetoids?
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LJK
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8/15/2006 8:45:50 PM
A better idea.
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Lee
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8/14/2006 6:43:55 PM
What about calling them
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Scott (Real) Evil
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8/15/2006 2:51:31 PM
re: Adjectives
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Raoul
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8/14/2006 6:52:32 PM
Trans-Neptunian objects
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SDF
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8/14/2006 11:24:18 PM
Just call them denizens of Hades.
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Lee
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8/15/2006 10:05:30 AM
Snowballs in Hell?
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Fox
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8/15/2006 3:32:23 PM
Hadeans, Jovians, Icarians & Terrans
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phil
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8/15/2006 12:49:50 PM
Inside Planets: planets, Outside Planets: planots...
(n/t)
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Pugs
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8/14/2006 6:12:27 PM
Has to be bigger than Earth's Moon??!!
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Bowser
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8/14/2006 5:27:31 AM
Cough cough...That was my idea.
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Lee
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8/14/2006 7:51:35 AM
THAT WAS LEE'S IDEA!!!
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Bowser
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8/14/2006 9:17:23 PM
re: Rumors about naming "planets"
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Chris
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8/13/2006 7:18:56 PM
re: Rumors about naming "planets"
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Chris
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8/14/2006 7:17:16 AM
According to NPR, IAU to keep Pluto as a planet; the rest will be called "dwarf planets"
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LJK
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8/15/2006 1:54:58 PM
IAU Blog - Pluto status is not the main event
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LJK
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8/15/2006 3:05:07 PM
re: Prague!
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Raoul
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8/15/2006 7:00:53 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.