Re: So Farewell

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:16:18 +0200, Sebastian Lisken
<Sebastian.Lisken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen wrote:
Does anybody know how I can remove a stray Kuiper Belt Object from the
database of the Stellarium programme that Sebastian recently
recommended? I'd hate to be out of line with the IAU.

:-) You would need to edit ssystem.ini in the data subdirectory. It has
sections about all planets and their moons, plus Pluto and Charon.
(Whether Charon would be a moon of Pluto or the two are a binary system
is not yet finally determined, regardless of Pluto's classification.)

This file has Unix line breaks so it won't edit well with Notepad under
Windows. jEdit is an excellent and free text editor (Java-based, Open
Source) that would deal with this. http://www.jedit.org/ is its website.

I have yet to decide about making that change, although I think the IAU
have made the right decision. I've posted a comment in the "OT: Planets"
thread
(http://groups.google.com/group/uk.media.radio.archers/msg/f52425f20673593a).

Pluto wasn't discovered. It never happened. Forget you ever heard the
name.

Well, dwarf planets get discovered too ... And I think the remarkable
BBC News article "The girl who named a planet"
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4596246.stm) would not need
to be changed either - it was a planet when she named it.

If Pluto were discovered today, I believe that "Pluto" would not be an
acceptable name for it, as Pluto is not a Creation deity, unless one
takes a very broad definition of what counts as a Creation Myth.

<http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/mpnames.shtml>
--
Stephen

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

http://wenlock.blogspot.com/
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