Re: New Planet!

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:51:25 -0400, Kirk Gordon <kg1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Some are; but what I read makes me think the asteroid-insistors are
>pretty tired and out-numbered. I think it's fairly safe to say that
>neither Pluto, nor the new kid on the block, is part of the original
>eight planets that appear to have formed with the sun. They're either
>big chunks of scrap, left over from the formation of the solar system,
>that have drifted into (more or less) planet-like orbits, or they're
>wanderers that have been captured just by dumb luck.

Pluto may have once been a moon of Neptune IIRC.
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Cliff
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