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To: yarddog
Who gets to decide? I think Pluto clearly is a planet.

Astronomers first called it a planet. And then, before it can complete a victory lap, they take the title away.

They should at least call it a brevet-planet!

And considering that Pluto's orbit varies so much from the ecliptic of the solar system, I wonder if its moons were acquired before or after being captured by the gravity of the sun.

15 posted on 10/03/2015 7:55:40 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

A Plutonian victory lap is mighty long timewise. None of us will live even 1 Plutonian year which is just shy of 248 earth years.


53 posted on 10/04/2015 4:26:04 AM PDT by xp38
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