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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Mnemonics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211902.4322@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:19:02 GMT
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- system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
- :
- : Oh YEAH? The planes do intersect, and there is supposed to be a collision
- : or near miss in about 4 billion years. Working backwards they should also
- : have collided about 2 billion years ago (c. 1/2 the estimated age of the
- : solar system). Some people speculate that Pluto is an asteroid that was
- : captured by Neptune at this time.
-
- Yeah - some people do make such a speculation. The same ones who ignore the
- fact that Pluto has a moon. Also, the same people ignore the fact that none
- of the asteroids travel anywhere close to that far out. They are pretty much
- confined between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.
-
- Bill
-