[meteorite-list] NOT PLANETS, PLANEMOS

[Larry Lebofsky]

I continue to break my promises.

The original committee that could not come up with a definition for planet did 
state (I assume from some ohter IAU group working on the other end with large 
planets) that there are no free-floating planets. Below deuterium burning 
(brown dwarf) you are a sub-brown dwarf (not making this up).

Larry

Quoting "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>:

> Hi,
> 
>     Extra-solar astronomers have planet problems
> of their own: is a star that's not a star a planet?
> Or is a planet that's not a star a star? Or, nobody
> loves a fat jupiterian...
> 
> http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060605_planemos.html
> 
>     You couldn't find a better word than Plan E Moes?
> 
> 
> Sterling K. Webb
> 
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