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I like the new definition as it will put a little more clarity around something that was fairly arbitrary:
Quoted: "[...]the new definition of planethood, which is that an object be massive enough that gravity has formed it into a sphere and that it circles a star and not some other planet."
New definition of what a planet is.
Quoted: A committee has proposed a new definition of the word “planet” that would expand at a stroke the family of planets from 9 to 12.
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I like the new definition as it will put a little more clarity around something that was fairly arbitrary:
"[...]the new definition of planethood, which is that an object be massive enough that gravity has formed it into a sphere and that it circles a star and not some other planet."