Re: Why Pluto can only be a planet

On Jul 4, 11:48 am, gb6726 <gb6...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Basically what they are removing if they are removing Saturn with it's
moons, is they are removing a planet. (given Saturn's orbit would
cross paths with Jupiter's)

They are removing a planet. The sentence in itself uses the word
planet.

Pluto has it's own self-defined course around the Sun. Pluto is a
large round object with Moons, a course that crosses with Neptune's
orbit.

That's all a definition of a planet needs.

The word Planet is round.

You know and I go with this over to sci.astro.research and they say I
have no scientic basis, no references, no scientific research
materials. It happens that they would rather kill than be susseptible.


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