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Mike, I like your blog description, where you say ...

2009-04-12T20:46:00.000-07:00

Mike,
I like your blog description, where you say you will write about "planets (full and dwarf)".
This tacitly admits that a dwarf planet is a kind of a planet. It's just so silly to say that a dwarf planet is not a planet. In the way you have categorized things here, dwarf planets can be clearly distinguished from other planets with whatever properties we care to assign them.
This solves the entire problem.
What a relief! Now we can move on to more interesting things.

All best,

David Grinspoon

Oh, and one more thing. I'm not in Illinois, just ...

2009-03-10T13:30:00.000-07:00

Oh, and one more thing. I'm not in Illinois, just supporting Illinois' proclamation, which makes more sense than that of the IAU. That and I'm working on a book about Pluto and why it is a planet--it should be out sometime in 2010 or 2011.

Sorry, Tom, this time it took me a week, but that'...

2009-03-10T13:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry, Tom, this time it took me a week, but that's only because I'm busy writing many articles advocating the overturning of Pluto's demotion. It's a free country; keep writing why you believe Pluto is not a planet, and I will keep responding as to why it is one. This debate isn't over.

Kaden: As a clever someone noted over on Phil Plai...

2009-03-08T22:34:00.000-07:00

Kaden: As a clever someone noted over on Phil Plaitt's blog, Pluto's orientation vis a vis the plane of the Earth's orbit means that it never actually passes "over" Illinois. ;)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/0...

2009-03-07T20:16:00.000-08:00

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/02/illinois-offers-to-sell-pluto-planet-status%E2%80%A6or-just-give-it-away-for-free/

Pluto THE PLANET is back in Illinois ... (Laurel, too)

I think I'm going to go stand half-way out on the Eads Bridge with one leg where Pluto is a planet and one where he is not...and make some comparison notes.

Kaden

Nice to see you back on your blog! This season II ...

2009-03-06T05:20:00.000-08:00

Nice to see you back on your blog! This season II looks appealing!
I hope you will speak too about 2007 OR10 (congratulations by the way). It is really a pity that it received so little coverage from science media. A sign of times that an object probably in the Top30 or Top35 of Solar System bodies by size has been ignored. Speaks volume of how banal this has become. Would have made the front pages ten years ago. It is mainly discussed by babbling nonsensical astrologers and not by rational minds. A pity.
Only ciel&espace reported it
http://www.cieletespace.fr/evenement/2805_decouverte-d-une-planete-naine-au-dela-de-neptune
(may be exagerating the diameter)Nothing on SciAm or New Scientist...

In your very interesting paper you focus on the statistics for Sednoids but do not dwell much on 2007OR10.

I am eager to get your prognosis for the diameter and albedo for this 1.9 absolute magnitude object.And see it receive attention as an object per se, not just an element for statistics.

Laurel Kornfeld notes her objections in three... t...

2009-03-03T21:27:00.000-08:00

Laurel Kornfeld notes her objections in three... two... one...

Does the season include commentary on Lellouch et ...

2009-03-03T03:34:00.000-08:00

Does the season include commentary on Lellouch et al.?

Was that data from the event you described last season in:
http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2008/09/occult-sciences.html
?

Ooo! Are we finally going to have a name for the ...

2009-03-02T15:05:00.000-08:00

Ooo! Are we finally going to have a name for the satellite of Orcus? It's about time. Has the name Weywot been formally submitted for Quaoar's satellite yet? And you also have my full support for Pluto remaining a planet, and I look forward to hearing your predictions for 2009!