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- From: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.space
- Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 18:00:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- From article <BzonA2.5rA@polaris.async.vt.edu>, by jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr):
- > In article <1992Dec22.185915.27317@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >>dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
- >>: bill nelson (billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com) wrote:
- > [incipient flamage]
-
- >>
- >>The statement was asteroid - not planetoid. The asteroids originate in the
- >>asteroid belt. It is doubtful if any of them could be perturbed enough to
- >>reach the orbit if Neptune.
- >>
-
- [emergent flamage]
-
- Although it might seem like I'm paying out rope here, I'm curious about the
- usage of the terms "asteroid" and "planetoid." Bill, since yours is the first
- time I saw the distinction made, care to define these? (I hope it's more than
- asteroids being those things that lie where asteroids were first discovered.)
-
- THanks.
-
- Greg
-