1st September 2006, 1:06 PM
That still doesn't tell me why that even matters. It won't change the science just because we call that rock something different. The definition of "planet" has always been arbitrary, there's really no way to fix that so we shouldn't even bother.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)