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David Holden

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Martin - Pluto is technically not a planet at all and Sedna (amongst the others mentioned below) is very definitely not ! Rather, these objects are more correctly referred to as "planetoids".

 

Sedna is astronomically described in the same category as the planetoids Pluto and Charon (Pluto's attendant satellite - although technically Pluto-Charon is more accurately described as a binary planetoid), Quaoar, Ceres, 2004DW & Varuna - although Ceres is an "Asteroid Belt" object and Sedna is an "Oort Cloud Object" whereas all the others are "Kuiper Belt Objects".

 

Astronomers expect to be able to discover at least a further 20 or so Sedna size planetoids and up to 200 further Ceres size planetoids within the nearish future - now they know where and what to look for. Some of these may turn up in the Kuiper Belt and there is a reasonable probability that at least one of these objects might exceed the size of the planetoid Pluto - otherwise the majority of these supposed orbiting planetoids would be expected to be found in the Oort Cloud which is very much further away from the sun.

 

I had occasion to pick up this knowledge very recently... in response to the Horoscopist Michael Cainer's writings about how the astrological influence of Sedna might affect folks' horoscopes in 2005 ~ I wrote to his Daily Mail forum, asking why the Objects Quaoar, 2004DW & Varuna (in particular) were not deemed fit to also extend an horoscopic influence in the same way - even though they were discovered prior to Sedna and are of roughly equivalent scale in astronomical terms !

 

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />As yet there is no reply on Mr. Cainer's site ! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

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Cheers for that Vienna - I remember hearing when it was first discovered that there were various scientific schools of thought about how it should actually be classified. I was hoping for a beardy punch up. Don't expect to hear too much from Mr. Cainer - con artists don't usually like to have their patois shot to pieces.

 

So who are we waiting for a question from?

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Sorry, it was the segregated seating answer that was correct. So American Fleet Fan gets the next question

 

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Whether it had segregated seating or not, are you sure that it wasn't the first Mr Holden?

 

I don't think that was the question was it?

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My guess would be that it is Monrovia Liberia - named after President James Monroe. As for a reason...I will have to do some research on the t'internet.

 

Right apparently Liberia was a piece of land bought by an American philanthrapist to enable freed slaves to return to Africa. Monroe supported this and was honoured when the Capital was named after him.

 

How's that then?

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