Solar System Objects.

Alan Taylor of Kokogiak made a (very large and fantastic) image showing the 88 known objects in our solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter, all lined up like ducks in a row: Link - via A Welsh View

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Very cool. I am however suspicious of pluto and charon. I thought we didn't have that good of images of them. It is a startling fact however than many of jupiter's moons are bigger than mercury. Next thing you know they'll be calling mercury a moon for the sun.

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Of course. I do corrections every day. If I could only catch them all!

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Meanwhile, the NY Times in the 1920s called Robert Goddard a fool, claimed rockets can't possibly function in outer space, and only issued a correction some ~50 years later after the successful Apollo 11 moon landing...

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/new-york-times-nasa-youre-right-rockets-do-work-space

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