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Defining "Planet"

Posted by michael on from the round-and-round dept.

beardoc writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is running a story today about a controversial proposal to define what size a planet might be - depending on what the final definition of how big a planet is, we could end up losing Pluto (at 2300 kilometres) to the status of "asteroid" or gaining three more planets - Quaoar, Varuna and Ceres."

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  1. More info by Mdog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's a really interesting discussion about this question when it came up in the 40s over at The Universal Bureau and Guard for the International Realism Lecture-Circut.

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  2. Re:A good "compromise" by BTWR · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will someone PLEASE troll down this asshole? You are so pathetically addicted to anti-americanism it's lead you to actually state that America wants to control Pluto's name because it was discovered by an American! Shut up. I have karma to burn, I don't care. Mod me down, but take that fucker down with me. Shut up and read why France and Russian are REALLY anti-war. Oh yeah, the French "Take our Jews Mr. Hitler and do as you please to them" are really the beacon of human rights.