Quote of the Year
You just have to laugh when you read this:
"People were probably wondering: 'If they take away Pluto, is Rhode Island next?' "
--Richard Binzel of MIT
Ahh, the little ones always get picked on, don't they??
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4 months ago
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I saw that in WORLD and thought it was hysterical. For some reason it came to mind in the shower this morning.
I think Arizona should annex RI...
The quote that made me laugh was in Newsweek: "The whole episode called attention to the fact that astronomers had never formalized exactly what they meant by "planet." It had always seemed obvious, but the definition that seemed to be emerging by default—"something orbiting the Sun, about the size of Pluto, or bigger"—seemed embarrassingly ad hoc."
The quote that made me laugh was in Newsweek: "The whole episode called attention to the fact that astronomers had never formalized exactly what they meant by "planet." It had always seemed obvious, but the definition that seemed to be emerging by default—"something orbiting the Sun, about the size of Pluto, or bigger"—seemed embarrassingly ad hoc."
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