https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-scientists-in-a-battle-with-astronomers-over-who-gets-to-name-things-on-vesta-and-mars/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-scientists-in-a-battle-with-astronomers-over-who-gets-to-name-things-on-vesta-and-mars/#comment-59328 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:03:04 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=19253#comment-59328 Planetary scientists too will eventually tell the IAU where to go if the IAU does not budge from its determination to never reopen the planet definition discussion. The organization adopted a terrible definition and now refuses all requests to reopen the issue, even though its planet definition pertains only to our solar system and not to exoplanets. Significantly, of the four percent who voted on the controversial IAU decision in 2006, most are not planetary scientists but other types of astronomers.

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