Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Plutonizing the zodiac
"The number of planets around the Sun could rise from nine to 12 - with more on the way - if experts approve a radical new vision of our Solar System."
There would be a new subcategory of planets - plutons. If the new system is approved & adopted world-wide, astrologers will have to decide what to do with additional Trans-Neptunian Objects. I'm a Scorpio. My sign used to be ruled by Mars, which also rules Aries. After Pluto was discovered & named a planet, Scorps became "Pluto-ized" (a word from Marvin Gaye's "Funky Space Reincarnation"). Suddenly, this incredibly distant icy spheroid had to be figured into astrological calculations. Now, will the complex system have to be plutonized?
There would be a new subcategory of planets - plutons. If the new system is approved & adopted world-wide, astrologers will have to decide what to do with additional Trans-Neptunian Objects. I'm a Scorpio. My sign used to be ruled by Mars, which also rules Aries. After Pluto was discovered & named a planet, Scorps became "Pluto-ized" (a word from Marvin Gaye's "Funky Space Reincarnation"). Suddenly, this incredibly distant icy spheroid had to be figured into astrological calculations. Now, will the complex system have to be plutonized?
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Teenagers obsess about all kinds of things. Among other interests, the guys I hung out with were passionate about astronomy. I once got into a fist fight following a dispute over whether or not there could be a tenth planet. I knew full well how difficult it'd been to find Pluto, even though its gravity gave clear indications of its presence.
It made perfect sense that a world even further away would more difficult to find. Gordon, a kid I only marginally liked anyway, disagreed a bit too vehemently, I suppose.
Since then I've welcomed even the news of Pluto's 'new' moons and went absolutely balistic (sorry) when I'd heard 'Xena' had been discovered.
Being right is good.
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It made perfect sense that a world even further away would more difficult to find. Gordon, a kid I only marginally liked anyway, disagreed a bit too vehemently, I suppose.
Since then I've welcomed even the news of Pluto's 'new' moons and went absolutely balistic (sorry) when I'd heard 'Xena' had been discovered.
Being right is good.
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