Pluto (was: Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????)

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> > Raymond Brown wrote:
> > > We now have nine planets - but a nine-day week is too long
> >
> > Some astronomers don't consider Pluto a planet (in fact, didn't the IAU
> > officially declare it not a planet?
>
> Hmm??  Who not?  It circles around the sun, ergo it's a planet.
>
> *Puzzled*...
I don't know if it was recently declared not a planet, but I do know
that there are people who don't consider it one.

The main reason is that it's much too small to be a planet, really. It's
more of a lone asteroid, or moon.

Maybe some one else can shed more light on this.

--
Robert

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