In a message dated 3/16/2004 11:51:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> A competing definition of a planet is "a body whose shape is determined
> by its own gravity"

That also describes the overhang to my stomach.

(Insert rimshot here.)

I think they said that Ceres could be round under its own gravity, but 
wouldn't be called a planet because its mass wasn't greater than all the other 
asteroids combined.

Maybe planets are like jazz....

William Taylor
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