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Old 30-08-2006, 12:57 PM
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planet red rooster?

now that the planets are settled and we now know we have 8 it leaves questions to be answered...

how do we name minor planets? theres likely to be hundreds of them and we will run out of god. one sugestion is to let the public and corporations buy rights to name them.

heres the article: http://space.com/scienceastronomy/06...to_follow.html
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Old 30-08-2006, 01:40 PM
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Commercialism seems to touch everything nowadays.

BTW Ving it wouldn't be planet Red Rooster it would be Dwarf Planet Red Rooster
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Old 30-08-2006, 01:46 PM
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i stand corrected sir

i am almost 100% sure that macdonalds and nike would buy a planet
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Old 30-08-2006, 07:10 PM
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Ditto Coca cola and Disney
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