Astronomy

***Earniel*** · 08-24-2006, 05:40 PM

So eight traditional planets and 4 plutons or dwarf-planets and darn, all my cool atronomy books are outdated in one go.

Still, I'm glad they finally managed to come up with a solution for the problem of having celestial bodies being larger than Pluto and not being planets at the same time. But it would have been nice if they had put down an actual size-limit, like BJ said.

And they better decide on a permanent name for 2003 UB 313 (currently also known as Xena) soon. The number looks so odd in the list of mythological names.

08-24-2006, 05:40 PM	#11
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	So eight traditional planets and 4 plutons or dwarf-planets and darn, all my cool atronomy books are outdated in one go. Still, I'm glad they finally managed to come up with a solution for the problem of having celestial bodies being larger than Pluto and not being planets at the same time. But it would have been nice if they had put down an actual size-limit, like BJ said. And they better decide on a permanent name for 2003 UB 313 (currently also known as Xena) soon. The number looks so odd in the list of mythological names. __________________ We are not things.

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