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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. Re:The definition of "planet" is universally ... by errxn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or this....

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