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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
I don't care what that say it will be called , as far as I'm concerned it was and remains , a planet.
The guys in that committee need to get onto more important issues.
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Well, once upon a time the sun and the moon were regarded as planets--the word means "wanderer". The earth, being thought of as the centre of the universe wasn't a planet. I'm sure after Galileo came along there were still people who remained true to the idea that the sun and the moon were planets, no matter what they were called.
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