Ceres: Asteroid or Planet

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:19 pm

Possibly a Pingpong ball.

alurker · Post by **alurker** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:40 pm

Add a poll and let the people decide.

People Power. Yeah!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:44 am

Planet. It looks to have a polar ice cap.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:35 am

The aliens from Close Encounters as played by Mr. Peanut.
(as he would appear in the photo-lab on CSI)

(asteroid)

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:45 am

Planet! Planet!
For two reasons:
1. To see what interesting Mnemonics people can come up with, such as
"My very energetic malnourished chum just sat under noisy pipes clunking xylophones"
(So that means Charon is between Mars and Jupiter, eh?)
2. To see how the astrologers change their calculations. There was a bit of reshuffling when Pluto came on board. I'd love to see what they make of three more planets!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:16 am

Given that there is a vast amount of distance between Sol and Pluto (way beyond an average person's, especially my, comprehension), why not more planets? It would be typically human to defunk this thought with a casual "We know of everything in our solar system". The plain and simple fact is, there is way too much stuff in our humble system for us to ever fully chart and catagorize it all.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:17 am

Planet? Looks more like a disco ball.

I refuse to learn the names of any more planets. I could never remember that stupid sentence, anyway. I just memorized them in order of mean surface temperature on the sun side.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:23 am

gonzo914 wrote:Planet? Looks more like a disco ball.

I refuse to learn the names of any more planets. I could never remember that stupid sentence, anyway. I just memorized them in order of mean surface temperature on the sun side.

That's really the only sensible way.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:31 am

gonzo914 wrote:Planet? Looks more like a disco ball.

Here is a higher resolution picture.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:17 am

Well, I'm just pixellated!

djm

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:05 pm

Ceres might be considered a world? The colonists would obviously play baseball on the world Ceres. (Sorry, the world Ceres is a bad pun I’ve always wanted to put to use.)

Rod

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:31 pm

thank you

alurker · Post by **alurker** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:50 pm

Que Ceres Ceres......

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:07 am

I.D.10-t wrote:
gonzo914 wrote:Planet? Looks more like a disco ball.
Here is a higher resolution picture.

It's probably more of a small moon than a planet...
maybe an assdroid...