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Vas Crabb BOFH Reged: 12/13/05 Posts: 4464 Loc: Melbourne, Australia Send PM Re: ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ 08/03/11 03:18 PM Reply > >, after demoting Pluto. > > demoting Pluto as a planet made no sense. > > "Planet" as a word originally meant "wandering star" because it was a "star" that > "wandered". > > Thus, historically, inclusion criteria for a planet was: > 1. Visible to a human eye as a persistent point of light in the night sky. > 2. that moved relative to the other persistent points of light. > > Size of the actual object was irrelevant to the ancient astronomers. Well by that standard, Uranus (sorry, Urectum) and Neptune should also be demoted, as you need a telescope to see either.

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ Andrew 08/03/11 05:28 AM Re: ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ krick  08/03/11 05:57 AM Re: ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ TriggerFin  08/03/11 05:34 AM Re: ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ GatKong  08/03/11 06:18 AM Re: ♫ Dawn go away - I'm no good for you ♫ Vas Crabb  08/03/11 03:18 PM

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