[meteorite-list] Defining 'Planet': Newfound World Forces Action

[Darren Garrison]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:42:55 -0700 (PDT), Francis Graham <francisgraham at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>> >
>> > A planet is a body that directly orbits a star, is
>> large enough to be
>> > round because of self gravity, and is not so large
>> that it triggers
>> > nuclear fusion in its interior.
>> >
>
>   This is a very sensible definition. We should have
>no aversion to calling Pluto, Xena, Sedna and Quauoar
>planets. 

And Planet Ceres.