Jupiter's red spot (once the great red spot)

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Re: Jupiter's red spot (once the great red spot)

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Bikerdib wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:26 pm
notFritzArgelander wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:24 pm
Bikerdib wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:27 pm

I stand corrected on the group. From what I've heard, a lot of the meeting attendees had left before the vote was taken. Maybe that skewed the results?
It certainly did. Alan Stern and the New Horizons friends had planes to catch. So the vote was scheduled for when they wouldn't be present.
And here we thought conspiracies only occured in politics!
This was politics pure and simple. There certainly wasn't any science involved! :lol:
The fact that almost none of the planets has cleared their orbits shows that the IAU was purely political and fundamentally not scientific.
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"Anyone else feel this way or am I just too nostalgic?"

Does rather sound like nostalgia for something you actually never had much control over? Same feeling I get every time I look into a mirror.
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Re: Jupiter's red spot (once the great red spot)

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Bikerdib wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:09 am What are you talking about, Pluto IS a planet!! I learned that in grade school all the way back in the 1960s and no vote by a small group of "modern" astronomers is going to change that!!
Pluto IS a planet!!!

As a matter of fact, I stopped at the Lowell observatory this past week driving to Ms from CA. Cool place!

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chicagorandy wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:04 pm "Anyone else feel this way or am I just too nostalgic?"

Does rather sound like nostalgia for something you actually never had much control over? Same feeling I get every time I look into a mirror.
I try not to look at myself in the mirror any more than absolutely necessary, it just upsets me even more. How the h3ll did I get this old...LOL.
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