That's right, dear Brother, science can't change, can it? The world was once thought flat until proven otherwise (tho' the scholarly knew better),there was nothing smaller than an atom, buildings couldn't be built larger than ten stories, the Earth was the center of the universe that was orbited by the sun and the moon. Are they planet planets? Maybe not on the scale of the Earth, maybe not even as large as Mercury. The moon is a planet in that it, too, revolves around the sun. Pluto, "Xena", and whatever else out there revolves around the sun in a fairly standard orbit. Alpha Centauri has a planet. Is it just the one because we can't see the others? It very possibly has 8 more, maybe a total of twelve, maybe 5 or 20. Will you always believe it to have one even if others are discovered...
Nothin but love,
Oh, other star systems can have all the planets they want.
I'm just worried about Sol.
[BTW, you do know I'm kidding about the 9 planets thing, right?]
Uh, no, not really. I mean, it's really really hard to teach an old dog new tricks...and you are what...280 in dog years? 7 x 40 = yeah... 280. I just assumed that you were already set in your ways and that adding more planets would seem to you to be adding more taxes. So. Anyway. Ceres, Xena, and I am thinking that Foster's would be a great name for a planet. You know, cold and dark.
As long as the "plutons" don't adopt Islam....
12 is a nice number. But with the new definition they might find more. By the way the moon can't be a planet because it orbits the earth. Charon gets to be one because they discovered that it doesn't actually orbit pluto, they both orbit a common point in space. It is not currently known whether planet Xena is inhabited by beautiful scantily clad large bosomed Amazonian warriors whose insatiable lusts can only be fulfilled by nerdy earth-men.
If they find planets around a red star, they HAVE to name one of them Krypton.
What's with this "Pluton" word anyway? Whatever happened to "planetoid?" From Buck Rogers, I nominate "Spaceberg" as another word they can use for naming these various types of large space rocks, especially if they need a name for large chunks of ice floating in space.
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