[meteorite-list] NOT PLANETS, PLANEMOS

From: Larry Lebofsky <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Aug 17 17:05:12 2006
Message-ID: <1155848708.44e4da047cf51_at_hindmost.LPL.Arizona.EDU>

I continue to break my promises.

The original committee that could not come up with a definition for planet did
state (I assume from some ohter IAU group working on the other end with large
planets) that there are no free-floating planets. Below deuterium burning
(brown dwarf) you are a sub-brown dwarf (not making this up).

Larry

Quoting "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>:

> Hi,
>
> Extra-solar astronomers have planet problems
> of their own: is a star that's not a star a planet?
> Or is a planet that's not a star a star? Or, nobody
> loves a fat jupiterian...
>
> http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060605_planemos.html
>
> You couldn't find a better word than Plan E Moes?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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