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Old 02-February-2009, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by laurele View Post
The IAU (or in this case four percent of it) can say whatever they want. That doesn't make it reality--especially since many leading planetary scientists have formally rejected the IAU decree.
Well, whatever the IAU (or you, or me, or anyone else) says, it doesn't change reality. It's all a discussion about terminology that ultimately is about the same thing.
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