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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.083202.14044@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:32:02 GMT
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec24.192807.29315@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >: Pluto's "moon", however, doesn't strike me as a
- : >: likely asteroid capture because Pluto just wouldn't have the gravitational
- : >: pull to snag something nearly as large as itself and keep it there.
- : >
- : >That is not the major problem - the problem is: where would sufficient
- : >energy be shed - the same is true for the supposition that Pluto was
- : >captured by Neptune.
- :
- : Bill, I think it's time you take this to sci.space and out of a.f.u. It
- : strikes me as more appropriate there.
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- It might be better to just drop the thread.
-
- Bill
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