please notice the nasa press release has a webite URL for todays press release of the pics.this "world" must have been discoverd with the new telecope in orbit at the L-1 point.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
as for nomenclature any world that has enough mass that forms a spere should be a minor planet. objects below this are asteriods(rocks) assuming that they follow independent orbits around the sun.(or in interstellor space)or(another star)
any object larger then pluto is a planet.
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please notice the nasa press release has a webite URL for todays press release of the pics.this "world" must have been discoverd with the new telecope in orbit at the L-1 point.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
as for nomenclature any world that has enough mass that forms a spere should be a minor planet. objects below this are asteriods(rocks)
assuming that they follow independent orbits around the sun.(or in interstellor space)or(another star)
any object larger then pluto is a planet.