This debate isn't recent, and it's latest resurgence has been 
around for a couple of years.  Wasn't there a discussion here 
on this list last year?

Unless of course you're thinking in Cosmic time or using the 
Atmarian Calendar...

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

Jim writes:

> "In the public limelight, Pluto has recently been the subject of a custody
>  battle between those who say it should be counted among the Kuiper Belt
>  objects - a ring of icy rocks beyond the orbit of Neptune that failed to
>  coalesce into a larger planet - and those who attack any efforts to
diminish
>  Pluto's status as the ninth planet. That debate boils down to what is a
>  planet and what is not, a seemingly straightforward concept with no precise
>  definition."

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