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To: SunkenCiv

I was taught there were only 9 planets and that one found in another solar system would be called something else besides a planet. A planet used to be a large body orbiting around our sun. Who changed the rules?


41 posted on 03/10/2012 12:37:35 PM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: mountainlion

In the rush to bash America by demoting Pluto, the politicians calling themselves scientists created a very stupid problem:

Planet Definition Doesn’t Apply Beyond Solar System
By Ray Villard | Tue Jan 26, 2010 03:03 AM ET
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2438897/posts
http://news.discovery.com/space/planet-definition-doesnt-apply-beyond-the-solar-system.html


67 posted on 03/11/2012 9:35:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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