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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-15-06 11:50 PM Original message |
How would you define "planet"? |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. I would adopt the terms planets and orbiting masses |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 11:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Neither is mercury then, right? |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. actually, Pluto is much smaller than Mercury |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. Pluto, off the list? Oh, the inhumanity!!! |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. This is a reasonable definition. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
4. It would be defined in terms of "Janet" and "dammit" nt |
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Sinti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 12:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Planet Shmanet Janet n/t |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 09:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. "Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl!" |
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Sinti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 10:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. So was I - only mine is a lot less innocent :) |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
6. I would say... |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-06-06 01:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. I'd say a 30,000 mile diameter minimum |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
7. Planets plan boosts tally to 12 (BBC) |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
8. Calling the new category "pluton" is a bad idea |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-16-06 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Here's a basic definition... |
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mccoyn (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 08:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. The earth wobbles in its orbit because of the moon. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 09:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. The Center of the orbit between the Earth and the Moon is still... |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 09:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. That is also why the first extra-solar planets were so vast |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 09:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. That line is already drawn, and it is pretty specific |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 06:29 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Then Earth is also not a planet |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 10:52 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Actually yes it is... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-19-06 03:55 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Still, both do orbit the sun |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
11. This is a source of some confusion for the public, |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 02:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. you're telling me! |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-17-06 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. The present nine, only, everything else is a satellite, or something. |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 06:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Everything else is a planetoid (in this solar system) |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-18-06 09:26 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I like "satellite", or something without planet in it. |
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