据说你不是文傻?怎么就那么喜欢信口开河、自以为是?
“其实,美联社当时对IAU的新闻报道的text里并没有提到交叉”,
就让你看看美联社的文字报道:
Aug 25, 1:31 AM EDT
Dinky Pluto loses its status as planet
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
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Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn't meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.
“说法类似方舟子的“我见到这一报道时觉得有点好笑。。。海王星应该和冥王星一起被降级才对”的批评当时(10几天以前)已经很多了。”
我没有见到类似的批评,美联社显然也没有见到,因为直到
我写这篇文章时他们在一篇跟踪报道中还在那么说。
Pluto astronomer's friends protest
9/2/2006, 10:23 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
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The IAU determined last week that a planet must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, as well as "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." Pluto's oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, which led the IAU to downsize the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.
在我写完这篇文章后,AP总算改口了:
Pluto Debate Not Over Yet
Astronomers' Petition Argues New Definition Of Planets Is Flawed
HONOLULU, Sept. 5, 2006
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he International Astronomy Union voted last month to adopt a new definition that says a planet is an object that orbits the sun, is large enough for its own gravity to pull it into a round shape and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.
This knocked Pluto out of the planet family because the body is located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of debris with millions of cometlike remnants from the solar system's formation.