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What do you define as a planet though? If you consider our sun a frame of reference, you might find that technically some far away objects bigger than the sun
by fooker 9y ago
What do you define as a planet though?
If you consider our sun a frame of reference, you might find that technically some far away objects bigger than the sun have complex periodical movements around the sun.
- devrandomguy 9y agoAre you suggesting that the galaxy revolves around the sun? Heresy!
- fooker 9y agoI am going to become a flat-galaxier!
- flukus 9y agoI'm pretty sure the definition would include having the sun as the major gravitational force acting on the object.
- sand500 9y agoWell the definition that removed pluto from being a planet is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet
- kkylin 9y agoI think that's an interesting question, but the search being described is for a fairly specific kind of object with constrained parameters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
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- autokad 9y agodefinition of a planet as follows: a planet is what ever arbitrary metrics Brown can come up with that demotes Pluto and includes the other 8 (sort of) so that he can write papers / gain fame / etc. They didn't come up with criteria and found Pluto didn't fit, they kept coming up with criteria UNTIL Pluto didn't fit and the other planets did fit. Brown has no army over me, and I don't buy into the academic nonsense. Pluto is a planet.
- Zardoz84 9y agoAnother American that can't live if Pluto is a planet....