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Or eight and half a dozen KBOs?
- Largest Asteroid Might Contain More Fresh Water than Earth
- The largest known asteroid could contain more fresh water than Earth and looks like our planet in other ways, according to a new study that further blurs the line between planets and large space rocks.
- Defining 'Planet': Newfound World Forces Action
- "The word planet is simply not a scientific word, it is a cultural word." ~Mike Brown, leader of the "10th planet" discovery team
- The claim Friday that a 10th planet has been discovered in our solar system has set off a fresh round of debate and international talks aimed at defining the most vexing term in astronomy: the word planet.
- Crazy Names: The Solar System's Nomenclature Wars
- You might be surprised to learn that the outskirts of the solar system are loaded with Plutinos, Centaurs, cubewanos and EKOs. Astronomers didn't even know this a decade ago. In fact until 1992 they hadn't even invented three of the terms.
- Now it seems they don't have enough of these crazy names.
