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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

If it revolves around the sun and it is large enough for its own gravity to form it into a spheroidal shape, it's a planet.

10 posted on 09/02/2006 6:19:41 AM PDT by CPOSharky (MSM - Live hizbozo = freedom fighter. Dead hizbozo = innocent civilian.)

To: CPOSharky

If it revolves around the sun and it is large enough for its own gravity to form it into a spheroidal shape, it's a planet.

That makes the asteroid Ceres a planet. It was classified as a planet when it was first discovered, until numerous other asteroids were found.

30 posted on 09/02/2006 7:43:01 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla

To: CPOSharky

If it revolves around the sun and it is large enough for its own gravity to form it into a spheroidal shape, it's a planet.

You must be a big fan of "Planet Ceres":

43 posted on 09/02/2006 8:08:19 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)

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