8 planets

Voting in the General Assembly of IAU in Prague is over. Results:

* we now have 8 planets - from Mercury to Neptune;
* dwarf planets - Pluto is, and all other spherical objects that are not satellites, and have around its orbit similar objects (call them simply ” planet now - against the law);
* Small solar system body - everything else that revolves around the sun.

23 August 2006 | moon, object, orbit, planet, results

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