News: Ten NASA Coins - Bill Passed

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...ArticleId=4947

Wonder if the set includes the sun and 8 planets, or if Pluto is
included!

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:32 -0600, "JZrarities"
wrote:

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Glad to hear it passed. Hopefully the Senate will pass it also.

I plan to buy at least the Earth and Pluto dollars if the designs are
decent.

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Jon Purkey wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:32 -0600, "JZrarities"
wrote:

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Glad to hear it passed. Hopefully the Senate will pass it also.

I plan to buy at least the Earth and Pluto dollars if the designs are
decent.

We need to start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't include Pluto as a planet.

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Paul Ciszek wrote:
In article , Jon Purkey
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:32 -0600, "JZrarities"
wrote:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...ArticleId=4947

Glad to hear it passed. Hopefully the Senate will pass it also.

I plan to buy at least the Earth and Pluto dollars if the designs
are decent.

We need to start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't include Pluto as a planet.

No, we should start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't also include Ceres, Makemake, and Eris. :-)

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:03:28 GMT, Jim Seymour
wrote:

Paul Ciszek wrote:
In article , Jon Purkey
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:32 -0600, "JZrarities"
wrote:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...ArticleId=4947

Glad to hear it passed. Hopefully the Senate will pass it also.

I plan to buy at least the Earth and Pluto dollars if the designs
are decent.

We need to start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't include Pluto as a planet.

No, we should start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't also include Ceres, Makemake, and Eris. :-)


You'd probably have about as much with that as the person who tried to
get pre-constitution presidents added to the presidential dollar
series.

BTW, I still think the Mint should make the planet coins sized
relative to the size of the planets. As a full set in a nice case it
would look pretty cool.

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:03:28 GMT, Jim Seymour
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Paul Ciszek wrote:
In article , Jon Purkey
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:32 -0600, "JZrarities"
wrote:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...ArticleId=4947

Glad to hear it passed. Hopefully the Senate will pass it also.

I plan to buy at least the Earth and Pluto dollars if the designs
are decent.

We need to start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't include Pluto as a planet.

No, we should start a petition threatening to boycott the series if they
don't also include Ceres, Makemake, and Eris. :-)


You'd probably have about as much with that as the person who tried to
get pre-constitution presidents added to the presidential dollar
series.

BTW, I still think the Mint should make the planet coins sized
relative to the size of the planets. As a full set in a nice case it
would look pretty cool.


A fork lift would come in handy. Billy

In article ,
note.boy wrote:

BTW, I still think the Mint should make the planet coins sized
relative to the size of the planets. As a full set in a nice case it
would look pretty cool.

A fork lift would come in handy. Billy

And if the "Sun" coin were made to be liftable, then the "Mercury" and
"Pluto" coins would present an inhalation hazard.

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In article ,
note.boy wrote:

BTW, I still think the Mint should make the planet coins sized
relative to the size of the planets. As a full set in a nice case it
would look pretty cool.

A fork lift would come in handy. Billy

And if the "Sun" coin were made to be liftable, then the "Mercury" and
"Pluto" coins would present an inhalation hazard.

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Not to be picky but the sun is not a planet it's a star. Billy

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:51:25 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Ciszek) wrote:

In article ,
note.boy wrote:

BTW, I still think the Mint should make the planet coins sized
relative to the size of the planets. As a full set in a nice case it
would look pretty cool.

A fork lift would come in handy. Billy

And if the "Sun" coin were made to be liftable, then the "Mercury" and
"Pluto" coins would present an inhalation hazard.

Well, maybe not exactly in true proportion to one another.

Excluding the Sun, there is about a 62x difference between Jupiter at
142,984 km (diameter) and Pluto at 2,274 km. So while a 62 mm coin is
doable, 2 mm would be a bit small. hehe.

Source for planet sizes: http://www.nineplanets.org/ According to
which, Eris is slightly bigger than Pluto. So maybe it should get a
coin.