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Valentine Pontifex · 10-31-2005, 04:41 PM

Two new moon have been discovered Pluto.

Haener · 10-31-2005, 05:24 PM

Of course, this doesn't make it a planet.

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Originally Posted by cnn

However, the new finding does little to clear up Pluto's planetary status. While it was discovered in 1930, Pluto has such an eccentric orbit around the sun that some have questioned whether it deserves to be called a planet.

(CNN)

Valentine Pontifex · 10-31-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Haener

Of course, this doesn't make it a planet.

(CNN)

I have actually seen increasing suggestions that the solution is to simply forget about the word planet. It is increasingly a meaningless term. Planet includes things like Jupiter and Earth which are clearly completely different types of objects. Then one has the issues of what is too small to be a planet. Should Kuiper Belt Objects be allowed to be called planets? And so on.

Pluto is a planet if people want to call it that. And no matter if it is to be called a planet or not, it is a KBO.

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