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To: Forgiven_Sinner
Is it a planet? Yes, although you could argue for it being a large asteroid.

The problem is that the definition of planet/asteriod is not an absolute. It's like the boat/ship definition. A boat is anything that can fit on a ship. Yet the nuclear missile subs are still called boats (probably a hold-over from the days when subs could fit onboard a ship). If astonomers want to end this mess, they simply need to define in absolute terms (mass and orbit) what a planet is.

11 posted on 10/07/2002 8:30:04 AM PDT by The_Victor
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To: The_Victor
And volume.
13 posted on 10/07/2002 8:31:39 AM PDT by weikel
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