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Re:Neptune may have swallowed a planet by MaxMorlock on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @04:16AM (#1215238)
Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets?

Still not used to the fact(?) that Pluto is not a planet anymore. :-/

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Re:Neptune may have swallowed a planet by RevRal on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @04:53AM (#1215282)
Welcome to hacker news :).

A part of me still wants to call it a planet, especially since I grew up where Pluto was discovered, in Flagstaff at Lowell observatory.

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Re:Neptune may have swallowed a planet by ErrantX on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @07:47AM (#1215458)
My parents teach astronomy to kids - and the #1 favourite question is about Pluto and why it's not a planet.

And usually one kid will try and explain at length why it still is :)

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Re:Neptune may have swallowed a planet by Kliment on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @04:25AM (#1215249)
Yeah, it's confusing. I grew up being told it was a planet too. And I'd state it as "still not used to the current definition of planet".
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