Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
> > We now have nine planets - but a nine-day week is too long
>
>Some astronomers don't consider Pluto a planet (in fact, didn't the IAU
>officially declare it not a planet?  Or am I misremembering?),
I seem to remember it the different way around: with discovery of the Kuiper
Belt, many astronomers thought that Pluto should be reclassified as a Kuiper
object, but the IAU said since Pluto is so much bigger than any (other)
Kuiper object, it was simpler to keep the traditional classification as a
planet.

>so, if we
>don't count Earth, we could still have seven days.  Mercuryday,
>Venusday, Marsday, Jupiterday, Saturnday, Uranusday, Neptuneday.  :-)
Hehe. Lengthy names ...

                                                          Andreas

PS FYI, Kuiper objects, also known as Ice Dwarves, are icy celestial bodies
that form a belt outside Neptune's orbit. The largest currently known are
about 200km in diametre - less than a tenth of Pluto's diametre. They do
however seem to have a Pluto-like composition of mostly water and methane
ice.

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