DanPremo.com » Science http://danpremo.com Daniel Premo's Brain. Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 More Planets? http://danpremo.com/2006/08/19/more-planets/ http://danpremo.com/2006/08/19/more-planets/#comments Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:26:07 +0000 DP http://s212826992.onlinehome.us/?p=274 Doesn’t anybody else think we should drop Pluto as a planet, rather than adding one, two, or eighteen more?

This guy agrees with me. He’s Michael Brown, and he discovered the celestial body 2003 UB313 — he nicknamed it Xena — which set off the current debate over what defines a planet. Interestingly, he doesn’t get to vote on the international definition of a planet.

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