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Offline Cymric

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Re: How many planets?
« on: August 16, 2006, 07:46:17 PM »
I like this definition a lot. It's elegant, scientifically sound, and becomes only questionable in the case of small rocky objects which are by accident round or dense enough to become (nearly) spherical. It will take a while for me to call Ceres a planet (being used to the familiar chant Mercury-Venus-Earth-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto), but I like it nonetheless.
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Re: How many planets?
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2006, 08:29:44 PM »
Not if your native language is Dutch.
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Re: How many planets?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2006, 08:42:34 AM »
Mike Brown wants to have his cake and eat it too. He likes the science, but abhors the bureacracy which the definition would entail. Make up your mind, will you?
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