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Old 12-September-2006, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Kristophe View Post
It was my observation that much of the debate revolved around dynamics vs inherent properties of the object itself.
Dynamics has a lot to do with the term planet. After all, planets are objects which orbit stars and don't orbit other planets. If only the roundness criterion was accepted, all large moons would have become planets.
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