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To: traderrob6

Its an academic argument that doesn’t really settle anything. Personally I would have left Pluto alone and given planet status to Ceres.


13 posted on 06/14/2015 6:41:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You vote for your TPP supporter and I'll vote for mine.)
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To: cripplecreek

Ceres was originally classified as a planet, as was Vesta. When a slew of other objects were found in similar orbits between Mars and Jupiter, they and their cohort were demoted from “planet” to “asteroid”, a term originally suggested by William Herschel.


24 posted on 06/14/2015 9:15:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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