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To: lbryce

Pluto has 5 moons. But it’s not a planet.

(Just keeping the record straight.)


4 posted on 07/07/2015 11:10:32 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Did I call it a planet?


5 posted on 07/07/2015 11:15:20 AM PDT by lbryce (OBAMA:Misbegotten, GodForsaken, bastard offspring of Satan and Medusa)
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To: samtheman

Meh. After decades of insisting there was no 10th planet, suddenly astronomers found THREE. To cover their asses, they degraded Pluto BEFORE widely disseminating their discoveries. They tried to carefully create a new definition that would exclude their discoveries, but leave in tact the eight other planets. They failed. Under the definition by which Pluto was deemed to not be a planet, neither Earth nor Mars is a planet. They had added the requirement that a planet has cleared its orbit of debris. Since then, several objects have been found at Earth’s LaGrange points, prompting a new “well, that doesn’t count.”


14 posted on 07/07/2015 11:25:51 AM PDT by dangus
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