"Rich" wrote in message
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Alan French wrote:
"Rich" wrote in message
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Saw on the news a group of them demostrated to get Pluto re-instated
as
a real planet instead of a dwarf. Someone should tell these people
that being a nostalgia nut does not mix particularly well with being a
scientist.

I don't think it is that simple. One of the IAU proposals would have
made
Pluto, Charon, and Ceres "planets." Would that have made the scientists
deciding on the definition a bunch of "kooks?"

I prefer the decision they made over the original one, but I would have
been
quite happy if they'd said, "We made a mistake with Pluto, but we'll
leave
it alone, and will be more careful in the future."

Clear skies, Alan

Sure. It's not a black hole either, but we can pretend.

I guess you missed the point. The folks in charge of such things could have
come up with a definition that made Pluto a planet. Indeed, they were
headed that way. Invoking a black hole is stretching things to the extreme.
We know that's not a planet, and could never be defined as such.

Clear skies, Alan