[extropy-chat] Re: SPACE: new planet?

[Spike]

> Joseph S. Barrera III
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Re: SPACE: new planet?
> 
> 
> I have an unexplainable fascination with the Kuiper Belt,
> so naturally I have a daily google news alert.
> This is what poured in today...
> 
> I think it's pretty clear we only have 8 planets,
> and a bunch of planetesimals.
> 
> - Joe

Depends on how you count them.  I would argue that our
own Luna should count as a planet, for altho it appears
to orbit the Earth, it is more correctly co-orbitting
the sun with the Earth.  That way we are back up to nine.

spike