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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [QB] Oh well, I'll scrub Julio �ngel Fern�ndez from my Christmas card list. Seems a bit silly to me revoking Pluto's planetyness after 76 years. Inconsequential as it is, it does seem a bit unfair. EDIT: I also can not help but wonder if the new qualifiers were accepted simply because they remove Pluto from its status. The actual wording of the convention is more than a little ambiguous. As far as I can work out, apart from it's orbit, Pluto has not 'cleared its orbit'. But it seems that by this definition, Earth and Jupiter are not planets (shitloads of small lumps of rock in their proximity), and probably this aplies to all the other planets. Would it not have been simpler for them just to have a vote thus: 'Should Pluto be considered a planet?', rather than going to all the effort of creating a new category of celestial objects with such a wishywashy definition? I hate office politics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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