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  February 02, 2006
Heavenly bodies

AJ�s friend D came over this morning to tear the house apart. They built an enormous train track around AJ�s room and then piled up extra track on top for maximum wreckage when the trains plowed through. I aided and abetted the situation by showing them how to run the race cars in opposite directions around AJ�s car track so they crash into each other. If you do it just right, the collision takes place at the top of one of the loop-the-loops and the cars become dramatically airborne. This kept them busy for some time. Nothing absorbs four-year-old boys like some constructive destruction.

Although I couldn�t manage actual work while they were playing � they�re just too loud (my sensible husband adjourned to the local library) � I did manage to make some headway on logging financial data in preparation for taxes. And I had a fairly productive day on my conference paper yesterday. I just wish I were more excited about it.

AJ, however, has been very excited today. At lunch he read me an entire article from the New York Times about the newly discovered ball of ice past Pluto and whether or not should be considered a planet. He also critiqued the accompanying graphic, which made 2003 UB313, as the body is unpoetically known, look like it was the same size as the moon even though the article says it is supposed to be smaller. For the record, AJ thinks the new body should be a planet if Pluto is a planet. No doubt he is correct. He struggled with the words �definitively� and �considered� but had no problems with �astronomers� and �diameter� or with any of the large numbers. He wants to know what the UB stands for. I suggested �unidentified body,� but he didn�t think that was suitable. Time to log onto NASA�s site for some research.

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