[meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

[tracy latimer]

>From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>

>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:45:46 -0600

>

>No, they don't have the authority to redefine words that are in common 

>usage and found in ordinary dictionaries. That is quite different from 

>defining the proper name of bodies, craters, etc. Their definitions are 

>more akin to recommendations than anything binding; I can quite legally 

>call any astronomical object anything I want; of course, it probably won't 

>be accepted by many!

>


For myself, unless there is something huge and spectacular hiding out there, 
I propose we call all the trans-Neptunian ice-and-dirtballs "crutons" (as 
several List members have suggested), lose Pluto as a planet (for strict 
interpretations), and stop throwing monkey doo-doo. :D

Anyone here read a kids' book by Andrew Clements, called _Frindle_?  
Ver-r-r-y enlightening.

Tracy Latimer (the Librarian-in-training)