Comments on: Pluto Routinely Set Aside in Planet Discussions http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2006/pluto-routinely-set-aside-in-planet-discussions/ Science, astronomy, politics, movies, and various minutiae. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: King Aardvark http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2006/pluto-routinely-set-aside-in-planet-discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-54 King Aardvark Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:15:55 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2006/pluto-routinely-set-aside-in-planet-discussions/#comment-54 We didn't cover the planets in freshman astronomy in my university. Too bad. We actually spent most of our time with brightness of objects, special relativity, and describing locations on the "celestial sphere". But the textbook did have the planets, and Pluto was always explained as an atypical planet, but a typical but large Kuiper Belt Object. Thanks for commenting on my blog. We didn’t cover the planets in freshman astronomy in my university. Too bad. We actually spent most of our time with brightness of objects, special relativity, and describing locations on the “celestial sphere”. But the textbook did have the planets, and Pluto was always explained as an atypical planet, but a typical but large Kuiper Belt Object.

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