Thread: How I Would Settle The IAU Planet Debate
View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)  
Old 13-October-2006, 07:40 PM
baric's Avatar
baric baric is offline
Established Member
  
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 561
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken G View Post
And the fact that this is not done for any other primary astrophysical classification shows why it is a bad idea.
Actually, this has been done for centuries. Titan is a Moon and Pluto was a planet precisely because of differences in their orbital characteristics
__________________
"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph" -- Conan
Reply With Quote