For those who use Pluto in Jyotish Analysis

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To All:

 

Pluto is no longer considered a planet. So, jyotishis may be more

comfortable in exluding this variable in chart analyses. Please,

read article below:

 

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Pluto Now Called a Plutoid Robert Roy Britt

Senior Science Writer

SPACE.com

Wed Jun 11, 11:49 AM ET

 

 

The International Astronomical Union has decided on the

term " plutoid " as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto.

 

 

Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU's

decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes

almost two years after it stripped Pluto of its planethood and

introduced the term " dwarf planets " for Pluto and other small round

objects that often travel highly elliptical paths around the sun in

the far reaches of the solar system.

 

 

The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on

Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III

and by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature

(WGPSN), and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent

meeting in Oslo, according to a statement released today.

 

 

Here's the official new definition:

 

 

" Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the sun at a distance

greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-

gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a

hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not

cleared the neighborhood around their orbit. "

 

 

In short: small round things beyond Neptune that orbit the sun and

have lots of rocky neighbors.

 

 

The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris, the IAU stated.

The organization expects more plutoids will be found.

 

 

Controversy continues

 

 

Already the IAU recognizes it is adding to an ongoing controversy.

 

 

The IAU has been responsible for naming planetary bodies and their

satellites since the early 1900s. Its decision in 2006 to demote

Pluto was highly controversial, with some astronomers saying simply

that they would not heed it and questioning the IAU's validity as a

governing body.

 

 

" The IAU is a democratic organization, thus open to comments and

criticism of any kind, " IAU General Secretary Karel A. van der Hucht

told SPACE.com by email today. " Given the history of the issue, we

will probably never reach a complete consensus. "

 

 

It remains to be seen whether astronomers will use the new term.

 

 

" My guess is that no one is going to much use this term, though

perhaps I'm wrong, " said Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, who has led

the discovery of several objects in the outer solar system, including

Eris. " But I don't think that this will be because it is

controversial, just not particularly necessary. "

 

 

Brown was unaware of the new definition until the IAU announced it

today.

 

 

" Back when the term 'pluton' was nixed they said they would come up

with another one, " Brown said. " So I guess they finally did. "

 

 

More debate coming

 

 

The dwarf planet Ceres is not a plutoid as it is located in the

asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to the IAU. Current

scientific knowledge lends credence to the belief that Ceres is the

only object of its kind, the IAU stated. Therefore, a separate

category of Ceres-like dwarf planets will not be proposed at this

time, the reasoning goes.

 

A meeting, planned earlier this year for Aug. 14-16 at Johns Hopkins

University Applied Physics Laboratory, aims to bring astronomers of

varying viewpoints together to discuss the controversy. " No votes

will be taken at this conference to put specific objects in or out of

the family of planets, " APL's Dr. Hal Weaver, a conference organizer,

said in a statement in May. " But we will have advocates of the IAU

definition and proponents of alternative definitions presenting their

cases. "

 

The term plutoid joins a host of other odd words -- plutinos,

centaurs, cubewanos and EKOs -- that astronomers use to define

objects in the outer solar system.

 

Why Planets Will Never Be Defined

The History of the Pluto Controversy

Gallery: Our New Solar System

Original Story: Pluto Now Called a Plutoid

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Namaste dear friends,

 

Recently I found very interesting article regarding use of Pluto etc.

in Jyotish. I suggest you to read it.

 

http://www.shyamasundaradasa.com/jyotish/resources/articles/fallacy_trans_saturn\

ians/fallacy_trans-saturnians_1.html

 

WBR,

Ivan.

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> To All:

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> Pluto is no longer considered a planet. So, jyotishis may be more

> comfortable in exluding this variable in chart analyses. Please,

> read article below:

>

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