--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I just heard from a guy . . . <snip all>
The visuals in the IAU press release at - http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html including - The 12 planets http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601a.html The 3 new planets http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601b.html The candidate planets http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601c.html make an easily followed case for the intent behind the classification, as opposed to the nuances of the draft resolution: http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_resolution.html The IAU press release illustration leave out one comparison in the scale between classical planet, plutons, drawf planets and candidate planets - a comparison between Pluto and 2003UB_313 and Charon. 2003US_313 is 4% larger than Pluto. Here's a Wikipedia picture that fills in the missing visual link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2006-16-d-print.jpg - Kurt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com