11-September-2006, 08:45 PM
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What really irks me about the new planet definition.
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CHXR 73 B "certainly fulfills all three of those criteria, but the IAU definition was never meant to be applied to other solar systems," Luhman told SPACE.com. "It was just for our solar system."
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...7_chrx73b.html
There it is, a cold admission. Special conditions applicable to one example in the universe, meant to be used nowhere else. This definition is utterly bogus. Its the fundamental equivalent of saying the Sun is some object other than a star because it happens to be at the center of this star system, and isn't a twinkling background object in the sky.
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