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To: J40000
They can’t even tell if PLUTO is a real planet or not

They can tell you all about Pluto's mass, shape, orbit and so forth. Whether it is a planet or not is a matter of definition and hence essentially arbitrary. It's a human classification category, nothing to do with the object itself.

If we wanted to, we could reclassify any sun-orbiting objects smaller than the earth as "non-planets" and Mercury, Venus and Mars would promptly drop out of the "planet" category.

10 posted on 06/15/2011 5:32:50 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Beat me to the punch, thanks.


14 posted on 06/15/2011 5:56:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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