RE: [GZG] No more pizzas!

[<Beth.Fulton@xxxxxxxx>]

G'day,

> Actually, unless the press has grossly misquoted the wording of the 
> definition, Earth and Jupiter aren't planets either.  The plank of it
that 
> demoted Pluto is, they have to "clear the neighborhood of space around
their 
> orbit" to be a full planet.

I'm still laughing over the fact any heavenly bodies outside our solar
system can't be planets... they don't orbit the *sun* (as required by
the new definition)...

Maybe this is all an evil Illuminati consipiracy (haven't had one of
those mentioned on the list for a while) to increase available funding
by slashing astronomy budgets ("extrasolar planet research, what
extrasolar planets?")

Beth

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