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Old 11-January-2007, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Ken G View Post
Well as you know, I feel the IAU dropped the ball and did something that is true to the traditionally correct nomenclature of neither planetology nor astronomy in general, caving instead to popular pressure to make "planet" just mean the ones you find in children's books.
Weirdly, I think they'd characterize it has not caving into popular pressure, so that planet did not mean what is found in children's books.
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