Yes that’s right. Pluto is no longer a planet. Jubilant celebration is in order. This was a major deal in the astronomy field, but only 5 percent of the astronomers voted. lol
Thanks MarkL! Good to be back. I’ve been busy, but now the worst is over and can enjoy reading the forum again.
Astrologer: specialist in zodiacal positions, date and place of birth, position of heavenly bodies, to use esoterically. ie horoscopes, birth star charts, magic, fortune-telling
Astronomer: specialist in observing heavenly bodies (planets for example). Does this for scientific purposes.
I’m talking about Sallsburry the next county over from Mo’s Tavern located in Springfield. Apparently it’s also legal there to smoke opium and they’re currently expecting Armageddon to arrive shortly. I think the main religion might be Branch Dividien. It’s a cool place; just last night a yeti was spotted with a pink elephant.
has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape
has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
is not a satellite
That third one confuses me a bit. I think it means that a dwarf planet has not cleared out all of the debris in it’s orbit, and is still acompanied by other rocks and the like.
Lake Wobegon is the creation of Garrison Keillor, and the setting of his humorous fictional accounts of Scandinavian/Lutheran/small town life in Minnesota.
The motto of Lake Wobegon is “Where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
I don’t know how many years I heard that line from him as his formal close to his weekly episode of tales from Lake Wobegon on Prairie Home Companion. PHC is a variety show on Public Radio that started running July 6, 1974 and has been in syndication since then, with the exception of a two-year period when Keillor took a sabbatical.
(Saturdays, 4-6 pm Central time on NPR, your local program time may vary. You will also, no doubt, enjoy the tales of Guy Noir, Private Dectective.)
The show got a certain notoriety, especially among the literati, so the “everyone above average” / “you’re so special” phenomenon has also become known as the “Lake Wobegon Effect”.
