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from: Paul Rogers
date: 2006-02-22 18:02:02
subject: Is Pluto a planet?

What do you think, and why?

I never have thought so.  It's orbital parameters are too
anomalous.  And then there's Neptune's inclination to it's
orbital plane, over 90 degrees.  I can't think of a solid
explanation, but I've always wondered if Pluto might have
been a moon of Neptune, perhaps close enough to be rotationally
locked like Mercury, and somehow (passing body?) gotten flipped
out of the plane and tipping Neptune as a reaction.


p.s. Hubble seems to have found two new smaller moons beyond
Charon.

Paul Rogers, paulgrogers{at}yahoo.com                       -o)
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