Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 27, 2001, 11:24 |
Henrik Theiling scripsit:
> Hmm?? Who not? [Pluto] circles around the sun, ergo it's a planet.
Not necessarily. Comets and asteroids also orbit the Sun.
The actual proposal was to classify Pluto as a Trans-Neptunian Object
(which it is) and to give it a catalog number as such, for convenience
and uniformity. This did not mean that Pluto ceased to be a planet,
but was widely misinterpreted in the world press as such.
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