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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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