Old debate re-opened - What is a planet?
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Replied by stepryan on topic Re: Old debate re-opened - What is a planet?
seeing that the word planet was derived from the old greek word meaning wanderer, i contend everything in the universe that moves through the heavens is a planet 
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Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re: Old debate re-opened - What is a planet?
Some quotes from Dr. Alan Stern leader of the new horizons mission to Pluto...
On size:
"You wouldn't deny a chihauhau a place among dogs because it is too small"
On having too many planets:
"if your brain was so completely full of names of people that it just couldn't take any more, would anyone new who you met after that, therefore not be a person?"
Would you call a girl a woman or a boy a man ????
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Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
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