[RightWhale]

Not just another cat story.

[billorites]

"The upper limit of a planetary mass is the fusion boundary, and the lower limit is roundness," he said.

Carol Mosely-Braun now knows where she stands, apparently.

[steve-b]

It's something of an embarrassment that we currently have no definition of what a planet is

Paging Bill Clinton....

[RightWhale]

Real_science on the short bus

[Brett66]

I like the major and minor planet suggestion.They'll have to resolve this soon, because the odds of us finding a KBO larger than Pluto in the next ten years are fairly good IMO.

[SunkenCiv]

from 2003! :') I have yet to build an XPlanets logo, message, or anything, but I've been stickin' some asteroid topics into this:

[SunkenCiv]

from 2003.

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[SunkenCiv]

"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet.