re: A new name for a newly discovered world

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Mark Eby — 7/16/2008 3:08:23 AM (archived)

Are you sure its a dwarf planet? Have we measured the density of its neighborhood yet? Or is it just that everything in the multi AU kuiper belt is automatically a dwarf planet despite inner solar system "planets" seperated by fractions of an AU being considered to have cleared their neigborhood while hundreds of thousands to millions of asteroids cross their orbits.

Regards,
Mark

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A new name for a newly discovered world - Raoul - 7/15/2008 12:42:25 PM
- re: A new name for a newly discovered world - Mark Eby - 7/16/2008 3:08:23 AM
- re: A new name for a newly discovered world - James Brown - 7/15/2008 4:45:09 PM
  - Pronounced Makee-makee - Raoul - 7/15/2008 9:00:04 PM
    - Naming planets after gods - Buck Galaxy - 7/15/2008 10:56:17 PM
      - Someday they'll run out - Robert - 7/15/2008 11:18:06 PM
        
        There's already a planet Bob. [mild spoiler alert] - alcaray - 7/16/2008 6:25:35 PM
        
        Never saw it - Robert - 7/16/2008 9:52:56 PM
        
        Bob - FrankC - 7/16/2008 4:28:54 AM
        
        He's smoking a hash pipe. (n/t) - ER - 7/17/2008 12:51:01 AM
        
        "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (n/t) - podrock - 7/17/2008 2:07:08 AM
        
        I magritte my teeth. (n/t) - ER - 7/17/2008 2:31:15 PM
        
        Treacherous ! (n/t) - podrock - 7/18/2008 12:45:30 AM
        
        I just got it! - ER - 7/18/2008 2:31:09 PM
        
        Slack! (n/t) - Robert - 7/16/2008 3:22:01 PM
      - Pronounced "hey seuss" (n/t) - Robert - 7/15/2008 11:00:29 PM

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