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Now there are officially only eight planets
Gavin Started conversation Jul 8, 2007
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?
Now there are officially only eight planets
shagbark Posted Feb 20, 2009
Feb 2009 the entry was officially updated.
Neptune is now recognized as the furthest of eight planets.
Now there are officially only eight planets
shagbark Posted Feb 20, 2009
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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