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To: BenLurkin

If so, it’s the 10th planet... not the 9th.


17 posted on 02/16/2011 5:21:39 PM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Are the planets of the solar system, that's 8. Once we got better data, we realized that while Pluto had sufficient gravity to coalesce into a sphere, it was not large enough clear itself of planetesimals, therefore did not meet the definition of a planet. Astronomers being a sentimental lot created a new (but unnecessary) classification for Pluto, Eris and Ceres.

33 posted on 02/16/2011 5:47:20 PM PST by Melas
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To: samtheman
If so, it’s the 10th planet... not the 9th.

Well Pluto got demoted some years back

36 posted on 02/16/2011 5:53:51 PM PST by tophat9000 (.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
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