Re: We have three new planets including Charon,Ceres,2003 UB313 (Zena)
<jsavard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
In that case, not only is Pluto not a planet, neither are Uranus and
Neptune, since neither of them is a naked-eye object!
For the record, Uranus is naked eye at 6th magnitude.
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