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New planet(s)!

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Coragyps

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Message 3 of 13 (228062)
07-31-2005 9:43 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by Sylas
07-31-2005 3:52 AM

Heh. Answers in Genesis has only grudgingly admitted that the Kuiper belt even exists, and here are some big 'uns to add to the thousand-odd objects there whose orbits are already calculated.....

another "gap" closes up.

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Message 6 of 13 (228102)
07-31-2005 11:51 AM

Reply to: Message 4 by Chiroptera
07-31-2005 10:02 AM

That promotes quite a few main-belt asteroids - Ceres, Vesta - maybe fifty more? - to planet status. Won't somebody think of the poor schoolchildren?!

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Message 10 of 13 (228121)
07-31-2005 2:48 PM

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07-31-2005 12:47 PM

Vesta: "Its shape can be fit by an ellipsoid of radii 280, 272, 227 (?12) km." From here. Not all that bad - not all the way to US football shape, anyway.

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