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Dullenplain · Local time: Aug 14, 2006, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Cellius

Isn't it Neptune that has an irregular orbit?

Pluto has it worse.

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Dullenplain · Local time: Aug 16, 2006, 11:02 AM

Yep, it's on the front page of my local paper. Three objects: Ceres, Charon, and 2003UB313 are the front runners to become planets of the solar system.

And then there are a dozen more candidates ranging from asteroids to Kuiper Belt Objects which could bump it up to a total of 24.

At least we managed to get a clearer definition of "planet" now. It has been, what, centuries before we agreed on a good definition?

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Dullenplain · Local time: Aug 16, 2006, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

Popular belief is that it will be called Persephone.

Likely Proserpine if we're sticking to the Roman names standard.

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Dullenplain · Local time: Aug 17, 2006, 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

I heard a guy on NPR today say something interesting, that counting planets is really the least interesting question in the whole debate. That there is a lot of interesting shit up there that we should study no matter what way we want to classify it.

However, it is sometimes a good idea to do a bit of bookkeeping every once in a while after making all these discoveries and breakthroughs.

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