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Re: Killer asteroids

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according to yous peoples definition of an asteroid, it was a planet that killed the dinosaurs...


and planets landing on earth everywhere, many times.


even a lady was once hit by a planet.


I'm going to have to make something clear to yous people...

GET YOUR FUCKIN DEFINITIONS RIGHT!


Learn the english language.


Why is it you people cannot make up your fuckin mind???? yous acting like a bunch of fuckin retards!





Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> Greg Goss wrote:
> 
> > Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> wrote:
> >>> > https://www.universetoday.com/36398/
> >>> > what-is-the-difference-between-asteroids-and-meteorites/
> >>
> >>"While we know that some asteroids pass very close to Earth's orbit
> >>around the Sun, we've been lucky in the history of humanity that we
> >>haven't had a large asteroid hit Earth in the past several thousand
> >>years. It wasn't until satellite imagery of Earth became widely
> >>available that scientists were able to see evidence of past asteroid
> >>impacts.?
> >>
> >>> > If it landed, it's not an asteroid.
> >>
> >>Wrong again, idiot. You should read your source *before&
> >>using it.
> >
> > Where is the cut-off between "Asteroid" and "Meteor"?
> 
> That is like asking “Where is the cut-off between ‘apples’ and ‘oranges’?”
> 
> I could not find a normative definition specifically for “asteroid”, but
> search results on the IAU Web site suggest that it is equivalent to “minor
> planet”:
> 
> ,-<https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/>
> |
> | Pluto and the Developing Landscape of Our Solar System
> | =======================================================
> |
> | […]
> |
> | The final resolution
> | ---------------------
> |
> | The first draft proposal for the definition of a planet was debated
> | vigorously by astronomers at the 2006 IAU General Assembly in Prague and a
> | new version slowly took shape. This new version was more acceptable to the
> | majority and was put to the members of the IAU for a vote at the Closing
> | Ceremony on the 24 August 2006. By the end of the Prague General Assembly,
> | its members voted that the resolution B5 on the definition of a planet in
> | the Solar System would be as follows:
> |
> |   A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient
> |   mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it
> |   assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has
> |   cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
> |
> | […]
> |
> | Planets, Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
> | ----------------------------------------------------
> |
> | Questions and Answers
> |
> | […]
> | Q: How many dwarf planets are there?
> | A: Currently there are five objects accepted as dwarf planets. Ceres,
> | Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.
> |
> | […]
> | Q: What is Ceres?
> | A: Ceres is (or now we can say it was) the largest asteroid, about 1000 km
> | across, orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. […]
> |
> | Q: Didn't Ceres used to be called an asteroid or minor planet?
> | A: Historically, Ceres was called a planet when it was first discovered in
> | 1801, orbiting in what is known as the asteroid belt between Mars and
> | Jupiter. In the 19th century astronomers could not resolve the size and
> | shape of Ceres, and because numerous other bodies were discovered in the
> | same region, Ceres lost its planetary status. For more than a century,
> | Ceres has been referred to as an asteroid or minor planet.
> |
> | […]
> | Q: What is a [“small Solar System body”]?
> | A: The term "small Solar System body" is a new IAU definition to encompass
> | all objects orbiting the Sun that are too small (not sufficiently massive)
> | to satisfy the definition of planet or dwarf planet.
> |
> | Q: Is the term [“minor planet”] still to be used?
> | A: The term "minor planet" may still be used. But generally the term
> | [“small Solar System body”] will be preferred.
> 
> ,-
> <https://www.iau.org/static/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/f1/meteordefinitions_approved.pdf>
> |
> | Definitions of terms in meteor astronomy
> | =========================================
> |
> | […]
> | *Meteor* is the light and associated physical phenomena (heat, shock,
> | ionization), which result from the high speed entry of a solid object from
> | space into a gaseous atmosphere.
> |
> | *Meteoroid* is a solid natural object of a size roughly between 30
> | micrometers and 1 meter moving in, or coming from, interplanetary space.
> |
> | […]
> | *Meteorite* is any natural solid object that survived the meteor phase in
> | a gaseous atmosphere without being completely vaporized.
> |
> | […]
> | The explanatory remarks, comments and secondary definitions (in bold)
> | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> |
> | Remarks to */meteor/*
> |
> | The meteor phenomenon can be caused by a meteoroid, an asteroid, a comet
> | or any solid matter with the appropriate combination of velocity, mass and
> | mean-free-path in a planetary atmosphere.
> |
> | […]
> | This document was approved by the majority of members of IAU Commission F1
> | participating in the electronic voting completed on April 30, 2017.
> 
> Please learn how to use Usenet and stop the mindless crossposting across
> alt.ALL and the Big 8 without Followup-To.
> 
> F'up2 sci.astro
> 
> --
> PointedEars
> 
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