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Old 26-June-2007, 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by parallaxicality View Post
Well to be fair, everyone and his brother's guilty of hyporcrisy on this. Even Mike Brown wavered a bit after discovering Eris. After all, would you want history to record you as the guy who discovered planet ten, or the guy who got Pluto demoted? Still, he came round to the IAU's decision in the end.
Yes, and I was critical of Mike Brown in this forum for that. To his credit, he did come back around to his original opinion.
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