In a message dated 3/15/2004 8:31:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there some real consideration that planetoid will officially be > considered a planet, or was it just newspaper cluelessness? > > -bryon > >
In the full article I read, the new definition of a planet, as defined by the finders of the object is this:
A planet is any body in an orbit where the object's mass is greater than the combined mass of all the other bodies occuping the same general orbit.
Making Pluto a planetoid.
As to newspaper cluelessness, even the local TV news was calling Sedna a planet.
And this is Tucson, damn it!
And Mike Brown is from Alabama (Huntsville), a fact which was mentioned on the local TV news here, which also called it a planet . . . in fact, they referred to it as a tenth planet of our solar system . . .
Hey, At Least They Mentioned It Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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