http://sarahaskew.net/2008/11/13/a-double-astrono-whammy-of-exoplanet-finds/ sarahaskew.net Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sarahaskew.net/2008/11/13/a-double-astrono-whammy-of-exoplanet-finds/comment-page-1/#comment-226 When you’ve seen one planet…. « In the Dark Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:46:05 +0000 http://sarahaskew.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-226 [...] Well, actually, we knew that. We live on one. And anyway, the International Astronomical Union recently stipulated that planets could only be things orbiting the Sun.  Don’t ask me why. So the new things have to be called exoplanets. And over 300 hundred of these were known before today anyway.  A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so we won’t worry about the taxonomy. But what’s the big deal? [...] [...] Well, actually, we knew that. We live on one. And anyway, the International Astronomical Union recently stipulated that planets could only be things orbiting the Sun.  Don’t ask me why. So the new things have to be called exoplanets. And over 300 hundred of these were known before today anyway.  A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so we won’t worry about the taxonomy. But what’s the big deal? [...]

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