I was just playing wit' cha, folks. But remember that anything in earth orbit is already gravitationally bound to the sun, which is why I said in a "direct" solar orbit. FWIW, I agree with Joe's boy and that was the gist of the chauvenism post. A planet, by any other name, would still smell as sweet- or something like that...I wonder if anyone has ever given much thought to planetary smells, come to think of it? Uranus, being composed largely of methane, would smell like a swamp or cattle ranch or- an outhouse. I find it strangely apropos that Uranus would smell like that...but I digress. Where one happens to come from should have no bearing on the true nature of one's character. And if a planet did happen to come from a stellar accretion disk other than old Sol's, that just makes it more interesting. --- Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
Ah, yes, Chuck is right. However, the astronaut would have to sneeze with enough energy for the ejecta to escape earth orbit and become gravitationally bound to the sun. In that instance, perhaps other parts of the astronaut would also attain escape velocity.
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