Subj : Re: Mothers Day
To   : Adept
From : Vorlon
Date : Wed May 17 2023 10:42:04

Hi Adept,

 On Tuesday May 16 2023, Adept said to Vorlon:

 Vo>> Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto!
 Vo>> (Pluto has been banished though)...

 A> I like to think of it as Pluto getting more interesting, since Charon is
 A> _also_ a minor planet, since the center of gravity between Pluto and
 A> Charon is _between_ them. All the other planets have moons, since the
 A> center of gravity is in the larger body.
 [...]
 A> decided Pluto couldn't be a planet. But instead of making all those
 A> other things planets, they did the "dwarf planet" thing, which still
 A> just seems odd to me as a dividing line.

It's hard enough to remember the ones that are there when you/we learn this
at school... I must admit that I knew all the names, but had to go search
for the correct spelling. #-)

So in the end we have eight planets, plus a number of minor ones! <-;

\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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