Comments on: Dawn's Details of Vesta Unexpected https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/21/dawns-details-of-vesta-unexpec/ Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:52:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/21/dawns-details-of-vesta-unexpec/#comment-491981 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:52:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/21/dawns-details-of-vesta-unexpec/#comment-491981 I got a great kick out of a comment in the BBC coverage of Vesta – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17481911

Dawn’s principal investigator, Christopher T Russell, told the meeting that the science team found it hard not to refer to the object as a planet.

Gosh hard not to call it a planet yet it is only 530km in diameter compared to Pluto’s ~2300km and we can’t call Pluto a planet anymore.

Someone didn’t get the memo I guess 🙂

]]> By: F https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/21/dawns-details-of-vesta-unexpec/#comment-491980 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:28:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/21/dawns-details-of-vesta-unexpec/#comment-491980 Very cool.

Platform-wise, that’s a very funky posting. Something is wrong, Dave.

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