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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
I don't see that.
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I do. What Stern referred to as "dynamical dominance" in his 2002 paper is essentially the same thing as the IAU's "clearing the orbital neighborhood" that he now criticizes as a farce.
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Meaning what?I read the paper that was linked in this thread earlier. It doesn't say that, as I mentioned earlier.You can't just keep asserting hypocrisy, and hope that the charge sticks. I don't think you have any evidence for it.
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From that paper:
"Stern and Levinson (2002) remarked that some bodies in the Solar System are dynamically important enough
to have cleared out the neighboring planetesimals in a Hubble time..."
And:
"Stern and Levinson found a gap of five orders of magnitude in ^ between the smallest terrestrial planets and the largest asteroids and KBOs"
From my perspective, it almost seems as if the IAU used the findings of Stern and Levinson to come up with their decision.