Just days after brownpau declares his stand on the Pluto debate, scientists voted to demote Pluto. (Wow, Paulo, your “campaign” got quick results.)
So let me get this straight… A planet is now defined as :
a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a … nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.
Pluto gets disqualified because its orbit overlaps with Neptune’s. It is now classified as a “dwarf planet.”
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