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To: PatHimself
No way. Charon is 11 percent the mass of Pluto, by far the largest percentage-wise pairing in the Solar system (our Moon is 2 percent of Earth's mass)... they orbit a common center of mass that lies between them... Pluto is about 4 percent the mass of our smallest REAL planet, Mercury... and they are not traveling on the same plane with the 8 Solar planets (off by 17 degrees). They deserve the downgrade.

"One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong..."

8 posted on 04/08/2015 7:23:14 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

There is an argument that the only real planets are Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter - all the rest are escaped moons ...


30 posted on 04/09/2015 4:32:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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