Re: Coincidence? Me thinks not
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it's a comical meme
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Date: June 02, 2017 10:59PM
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> I don't recognize the authority of the
> International Astronomical Union to determine what
> is and what is not a planet.
>
> By the time the IAU came into existence we already
> had eight bodies that orbited around the sun which
> we had agreed were considered planets, even though
> there were differences between them. Pluto was
> discovered ten years after the IAU was founded,
> and for decades afterwards the IAU did not
> challenge Pluto's status as a planet. It was only
> when the IAU created the arbitrary requirement
> that an object must have cleared the area around
> its orbit in order to be a planet that the IAU
> decided Pluto no longer met the qualifications.
> Perhaps in the future when we come to realize just
> how many objects have orbits that take them close
> to Earth and other planets, we will realize just
> how poorly thought out this requirement is.
JFC what is wrong with you people?