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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. thank you for your contribution by Mdog · · Score: 0, Troll

    you may be interested in reading up on this further at The Universal Group for International Realism Lecture-Circut.

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