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Originally Posted by ToSeek
I suppose the point is that if you move something just a little bit, that shouldn't make it necessary to redefine it.
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That's a valid point, but we have to be careful how it is phrased. We are talking about moving the moon out from the earth by another third. If we moved Mars in towards the sun by a third, it would no longer be a planet under the latest guidelines.
However, my main objection to this has been the mechanism--the tidal braking mechanism will not move the moon that far away from the earth.