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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
Don't take baric's opinion for thatWe had this discussion before, baric, and you didn't defend your position at the time. I think you're probably wrong. |
Didn't defend? I was involved heavily in that discussion for some time. After a while, you get tired of people arguing semantics and find something more constructive to do.
I have a tremendous respect for Alan Stern and what he has done for astronomy & planetary science. I am not going to rehash an old discussion about something I thought he was being inconsistent about at the time.
Everyone is free to read the paper he co-authored in 2000 and determine for themselves if Stern is making an case for 8 dominant planets in our system:
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/PDF/planet_def.pdf
To imply that I somehow couldn't defend my statement because I didn't reply for the umpteenth time to a post at the end of yet another long discussion thread is unwarranted, imo. Stern's words in 2000 speak for themselves.