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From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

>the word, "planet". My paperback dictionary, obviously way out of date,
says that a planet is any heavenly body that revolves around the sun. 
>
Like I tell my students, general dictionaries are lousy sources for 
technical terms.
Regards,
Chris

That is true but it turns out that before the recent vote there was no
official agreed upon definition of what a planet was so your Pocket
Webster's was about as authoritative as anything else.

Rick

Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of Psychology
John Brown University
2000 W. University
Siloam Springs, AR  72761
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(479) 524-7295
http://www.jbu.edu/academics/hss/psych/faculty.asp

"Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human
heart."
- Ulysses Everett McGill


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