August 24th, 2006
No More New Planets Until Further Notice
One thing we can say that this new definition of ‘Planet" does for us, is make it impossible for the foreseeable future to declare that we’ve discovered planets orbiting around other stars. Until we can know they’ve cleared their "neighborhood" we don’t know that they are planets. So planet hunters will now have to call themselves something else. Large Space Objects Of Indeterminate Classification hunters or something…