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To: SunkenCiv
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.

So that excludes Earth's Moon, and includes Ceres, Vesta, Pluto, and Charon.

16 posted on 08/13/2006 8:42:42 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: Pyro7480
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.
There are at least ten planets. Pluto is a spheroid (as is the Earth), orbits a star directly, and isn't the moon of another planet. Charon, by contrast, orbits Pluto, as do at least two other moons, so Charon and the other two moons are not planets.
17 posted on 08/13/2006 9:47:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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