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robert casey wrote: Cronus would have been considered seriously, had it not been initially proposed by "a certain detested egocentric astronomer". I wonder how such a person would have gotten thru grad school and presumably got a PhD. Back then lots of astronomers were self taught. Wasn't Hubble a high school girls basketball coach? |
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Gaspard de la Nuit wrote: Georgium Sidus, or something like that. In honor of George III, King of England at the time and benefactor of Herschel. As Mel Brooks would tell us; "It's good to be king!" ;-) "Tell me Herschel- why did you name it after me, what-what?" "Its bluish hue reminded me of your Majesty." "In what way Herschel, in what way?" "I took one look at it, and thought to myself 'what's that ****y little blue thing?'... Your Majesty popped immediately to mind." "Well, Herschel, that is insulting! I shall have someone else name it!" Later, before the Royal Society: "His Majesty thinks that the new bluish planet should bear a different name from that proposed by Herschel; do we have any suggestions?" Herschel: "Urine-us!" "That will not do...that will not do at all." "Okay, we'll change the spelling, and slip it by him!" Later, in the Palace: "Good morning, your Highness; the Royal Society suggests it be "Uranus". "And what, pray tell, do they suggest be my anus for? I have enough trouble with Parliament telling me that it shall come to that shortly, without the seconding of these scoundrels!" ;-) Pat |
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robert casey (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
t: Herschel originally named it "Georgium Sidus", i.e. George's Star, after the then king of England. That did not go over very well elsewhere in Europe. I see that kissing the boss's ass is a time honored tradition in human history... :-) But why "Uranus"? This name makes every junior high school science class student giggle and laugh..... "What's the diameter of Uranus?" Beavises and Buttheads across the nation would ask. The modern pronunciation is "YOU ran us" to avoid all those bottom-line jokes. -- Paul Townsend Pair them off into threes Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply |
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Rodney Kelp writes:
I thought Pluto was an asteroid. Why? |
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Rodney Kelp wrote:
I thought Pluto was an asteroid. Don't tell Congress that, or else they'll cancel the Pluto probe mission. "You guys already did an asteriod, why do you need another?" congressional idiots will ask. Sure, it's just a semantic word game, but that's all that congressmen know. |
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"robert casey" wrote in message nk.net... Rodney Kelp wrote: I thought Pluto was an asteroid. Don't tell Congress that, or else they'll cancel the Pluto probe mission. "You guys already did an asteriod, why do you need another?" congressional idiots will ask. Sure, it's just a semantic word game, but that's all that congressmen know. What about congresswomen? rj |
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Henry Spencer wrote:
Herschel originally named it "Georgium Sidus", i.e. George's Star, after the then king of England. That did not go over very well elsewhere in Europe. Or in the United States. Remember *which* George that was. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me. |
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In article ,
Keith F. Lynch wrote: Herschel originally named it "Georgium Sidus", i.e. George's Star, after the then king of England. That did not go over very well elsewhere in Europe. Or in the United States. Remember *which* George that was. Opinion in the United States didn't figure into it then. There were no respected astronomers in the lately departed Colonies :-), and indeed, I think Benjamin Franklin was the only man in the US then who had any sort of scientific reputation. -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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