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- From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
- Subject: Re: Mnemonics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.143947.1967@pixel.kodak.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:39:47 GMT
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- bill nelson (billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com) wrote:
- > jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
- > : In article <1992Dec21.211902.4322@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >
- > : >: 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.
- >
- > Note that I said "pretty much".
- >
- > 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
-
- Well, stay tuned. Object 1992QB1 is reckoned to be a good candidate for a
- distant (40-50 A.U.) minor planet and may be the first of many discovered at
- that distance.
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