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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frok Pok.

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      bleep

  2. yes, but... by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what do you mean by "define"?

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  3. We don't care about this shit by black+people · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What do we care about?

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    Welcome to the black market.

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

    Or this....

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  5. in soviet russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    in soviet russia:
    #define planet YOU