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dolariRegarding the confusion over a definition separating planets from other Sun-orbiting bodies:
Since any object too small to be considered a planet is a "minor planet", a "small solar system body", or a "dwarf planet", and since anything bigger than TEXAS is certainly not minor, not small, and not a dwarf, therefore, a planet must be any star-orbiting, non-fusing celestial body larger than the smallest sphere containing TEXAS.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/planettexas.html
The final International Astronomical Union decision, to classify Pluto and other objects as "dwarf planets", however, cannot be accepted as appropriately TEXAN.
Since any object too small to be considered a planet is a "minor planet", a "small solar system body", or a "dwarf planet", and since anything bigger than TEXAS is certainly not minor, not small, and not a dwarf, therefore, a planet must be any star-orbiting, non-fusing celestial body larger than the smallest sphere containing TEXAS.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/planettexas.html
The final International Astronomical Union decision, to classify Pluto and other objects as "dwarf planets", however, cannot be accepted as appropriately TEXAN.
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