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Our Moon Could Become a Planet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the size-does-matter dept.

anthemaniac writes "Earth's moon is drifting away from us more than an inch every year. In a few billion years, if the system survives, the moon would be reclassified as a planet under the new IAU definition. You gotta wonder if the astronomers who dreamed this definition up had thought of that."

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  1. Re:So what? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you change the attributes, the very defining characteristics of something, and you have to rename it? Wow! What a concept. Then I wonder what would be an appropriate name for the Republican Party!

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact