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IAU Blog - Pluto status is not the main event

LJK — 8/15/2006 3:05:07 PM (archived)

Astronomer Thomas Marquart has created a site for astronomers to live-blog
the IAU General Assembly 2006 Meeting in Prague from August 14 to 25, 2006:

http://astronomy2006.blogspot.com/

Despite what the MSM is reporting, Pluto's status is not the big event.

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

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