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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Mnemonics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.020707.23411@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec21.224604.22188@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:07:07 GMT
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- jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec21.211902.4322@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
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- : >: 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.
- :
- : Sorry, Bill, but there are many planetoids and asteroids that orbit beyond
- : the orbit of Jupiter. One such is a minor planet called Chiron. There
- : are quite a few others as well.
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- Note that I said "pretty much".
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- There certainly are some that travel outside the orbit of Jupiter - as well
- as inside the orbit of the Earth. However, I know of none that travel outside
- the orbit of Saturn, much less any of the planets further out.
-
- Bill
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