15 Aug
2006
15 Aug
'06
12:23 p.m.
Have you all seen this?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5631291&ft=1&f=1003
So Pluto, Sedna, Xena, and Quaooriariooaahooee will now be "Asteroids that we'll still call planets so we don't tick off the schoolchildren"? ;-) It would be fun to take a straw poll at the next SLAS meeting. I think Pluto is popular among amateurs because Clyde Tombaugh was basically an amateur as well, even if an extremely dedicated one.