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Old 13-12-2011, 12:10 PM
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If they're going to call Vesta a planet, then they might as well say the Moon really is made of green cheese (Swiss, at that!! ).

If you take the IAU's ridiculous pronouncement at its literal, strictest meaning, there are no planets in this solar system, except for Mercury and maybe Venus. Every other planet has "debris" in its orbit...think of all the Trojan asteroids floating around about, for a start. Then what about all the other asteroids....the Aten, Amor, Apollo, Centaur and other asteroid groups floating around....all busily orbiting about and near the planets. Cleared orbits???....hardly.
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