[extropy-chat] 10th Planet Discovered

[Brent Neal]

 (3/17/04 20:25) Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:

>However, the context was about rocky cores and whether Sedna is a
>planet  (? I didn't read all of the thread), so I still don't follow
>your 'damning' comment. 

They were separate and unrelated except for the fact that the literature I read seems to indicate that astronomers are considering both the eccentricity of orbit and the presence of a solid rocky core as key criteria for planethood.

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