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! William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
