August 15, 2013/8 Comments//by. Life tenure for out-of control federal judges, including members of the Supreme Court will never be abolished unless there is an overwhelming public demand. I was asked for my view regarding a proposal to provide term limits for federal judges, including members of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is my response:
Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. They are also known as planetoids or minor planets. In total, the mass of all the asteroids is less than that of Earth's moon. But despite their size, asteroids can be dangerous. Many have hit Earth in the past, and more will crash into our planet in the future.
A planet is an object that has cleared its space (i.e., there is nothing comparable in size around it). Therefore anything in the asteroid belt or the Kuiper belt (where Pluto is) can be a planet. They came up with a new term: dwarf planet, but decided that dwarf planets are not planets, just big asteroids!