Top right corner of every post...... near pluto...

The main problem I have with 'the cleared out part' is that assumption that we know every single object that exists in our solar system. and how does clearing out...

I was kidding... about the diety and chuck norris... but society allways needs to feel there is something bigger out there either trying to kill us or save us....  i...

white is black, good is evil, Tom Baker is the only Dr. Who, Hal Jordon is the only Green Lantern, and pluto according to the Stanley-Brown astronomy nomenclature is a...

moon.naturallyoccuring.satellite.earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.unfashionable.arm.milkyway.spiral.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord.42.

moon.naturallyoccuring.satellite.earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.small.arm.milkyway.spiral.galaxy.medium.cluster.large.universe.multiverst.fnord.42.deity.chucknorris

and i'm down with that... let me know how you think we should oraganize it... domain names in mind...

hmmm.

are you ok with .. with calling it the STANLEY-BROWN astronomy nomenclature... a subset of rfc2616.

Yours truly,

Edward W. Stanley

"earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.milkyway.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord"

AMEN. 

There its done....

High five kevin.

now where would the moon fit?

"'moon.earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.milkyway.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord"

"moon.smallsolarobject.earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.milkyway.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord"

"moon.smallsolarobject.solarsystem.milkyway.galaxy.cluster.universe.multiverst.fnord"

for examples...

And "truth" is overrated... IMTO

We can't see atoms but we can split atoms ..... but you are just splitting hairs. Please, come up with a naming convention...

I chose http ver 1.1... I'll run with...

which way would you prefer it to be described

http://pluto.dwarf.planet.solarsystem.universe

http://universe.solarsystem.planet.dwarf.pluto/

http://pluto.dwarfplanet.solarsystem.univerise

for some easy examples... there ... naming convention from rfc2616...

http://pluto.dwarf.planet.solarsystem.universe.dimension

http://earth.mostlyharmless.planet.solarsystem.universe.dimension

Someone else's car is still a car.  Whether it was borrowed from another solar system or local to ours.  or if someone parked it there accidently.

Further, "they were not...

I thought it was too obvious...

alright one more... i say .. we destroy any objects that do not fit the classical definition.  If its small enough to be nuked out of the solar system it...

I promise .. my last glib retort...

re

"I just can't wait to try and explain to my 7 year old that last year we had 9 planets and now we have...

appending said comment about everything being small... the astronomer's group's ego...  seems to need to have some allowance for its planetary nature...