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Old August 23rd 06, 01:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Time to clean house at the IAU?

Seems like only some younger astronomers are looking rationally at the
planet issue while the "old guard" are buldozing ahead with their
myopic, nostalgic and STUPID plan to turn everything but NASA's old
space junk into planets. Ceres? Are they out of their F---- minds?
Or is alzheimers an affliction of astronmers as much as the general
population?
This isn't what I thought would happen to the IAU. Watching the
average age of amateurs climb over the years, I figured they'd just
fade into relative obscurity, every so often naming a new Moon feature
or asteroid. Perhaps the younger members would go on some
politically-correct jag and start naming astronomical objects after
African witch doctors or Native American chiefs.
What has happened is disturbing and I hope they control themselves so
we don't up with hundreds of lumps of rock and ice being called
planets. Talk about cheapening the term. To put it in perspective,
try describing or naming all of Saturn's moons....

 




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