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Planets go missing : Comments

By Paul Foley, published 12/3/2007

A planet isn't necessarily so: all you ever wanted to know about planets, Trojans, dwarf planets and orbital neighbourhoods.

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So now we need a word for things that orbit stars, are big enough to have collapsed into a spherical shape under their own gravity, and are not the satellites of similar things.

Lets call them solets.
Posted by waterboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 1:58:37 PM
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What about Planet Claire? As the B-52s put it:
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head.

Fine but what is official status now?
Posted by Savage Pencil, Monday, 19 March 2007 8:26:24 AM
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As long as we don't have that terrible planet of the apes...

Wait a minute...statue of liberty...that was OUR PLANET!
Posted by spendocrat, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:40:14 AM
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