{"id":3116,"date":"2006-08-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:18","slug":"bizarro-earth-would-not-be-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/19\/bizarro-earth-would-not-be-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarro Earth Would Not Be A Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/Bizarroworld.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/Bizarroworld.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>The part of &#8220;IAU Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI&#8221; that describes the planet definition, states &#8220;A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the latest IAU debates over the definition of a planet for a number of reasons.  Of course, I&#8217;d have to memorize all those new planets, but it&#8217;ll also affect some stories I&#8217;ve written.  One novel in progress (set in the future) mentions the rivalry between the settlers of Ceres and those of Vesta including their sporting events.  If Ceres gets to be a planet and Vesta doesn&#8217;t, well, that&#8217;ll be an interesting escalation of the ill feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The part of &#8220;IAU Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI&#8221; that describes the planet definition, states &#8220;A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/19\/bizarro-earth-would-not-be-planet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bizarro Earth Would Not Be A Planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[394,395,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Og","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}