Archives for February 2009
Defining Planets (Part I)
Published on 2 Feb 2009 at 4:48 pm.
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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted on a new definition of the word planet. I wrote about the matter at the time, but I now feel that I should revisit that discussion. Last week I wrote about an asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit and that this asteroid raised issues with the IAU definition of […]
