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Old 28-August-2006, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Ara Pacis View Post
That makes about as much sense as classifying electrons by how many other electrons are in its orbital. Aparently, hydrogen is the only element with electrical properties... every other element has a cloud of small negative system particles.
Meaningless analogies aside, the IAU disagrees with you. Since they're the ones who've spent their lives studying this stuff and understand what's going on "up there" better than the rest of us, I'm kinda inclined to go with them, not the public vote.
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