Subject: Now there are officially only eight planets Posted Jul 8, 2007 by Gavin Orr		Post: 1

According to
http://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf

there are now only eight planets : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. While Ceres, Pluto and Eris (formerly known as the planet 2003 UB313), now belong to the category of "Dwarf Planets"

Any plans to update the entry?

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Subject: Now there are officially only eight planets Posted Feb 20, 2009 by shagbark This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 2

Feb 2009 the entry was officially updated.
Neptune is now recognized as the furthest of eight planets.

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Subject: Now there are officially only eight planets Posted Feb 20, 2009 by shagbark This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 3

The hyper link in post #1 may not work.
try
http://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf

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