{"id":15169,"date":"2003-03-10T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/10\/you-say-planet-i-say-kuiper-belt-object\/"},"modified":"2003-03-10T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T12:39:00","slug":"you-say-planet-i-say-kuiper-belt-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/10\/you-say-planet-i-say-kuiper-belt-object\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say Planet, I Say Kuiper Belt Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/03\/09\/1047144868646.html\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> at the <i>Sydney Morning Herald<\/i> details some of the controversy surrounding the classification and definition of &ldquo;planet,&rdquo; primarily because of University of California astronomer Gibor Basri&rsquo;s proposal to the International Astronomical Union to increase the number of planets to 12.  &ldquo;According to Professor Basri&rsquo;s definition, a planet must orbit a star, not another planet, and it must be round. That means it must be 700 kilometres in diameter, when gravity moulds it into a sphere, or bigger. Smaller objects are potato-shaped.&rdquo;  This proposal would obviously add three more planets to our present system, including the asteroid Ceres, discovered in 1801, and the Kuiper-belt objects of Varuna, discovered in 2000, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2002_10_06_archive.html#85538162\" target=\"_blank\">Quaoar<\/a>, discovered just last year.  However, many astronomers have already reduced the number of planets to eight, discounting Pluto as a planet, so there is obviously some disagreement on the proposal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90445196?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article at the Sydney Morning Herald details some of the controversy surrounding the classification and definition of &ldquo;planet,&rdquo; primarily because of University of California astronomer Gibor Basri&rsquo;s proposal to the International Astronomical Union to increase the number of planets to 12. &ldquo;According to Professor Basri&rsquo;s definition, a planet must orbit a star, not another &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/10\/you-say-planet-i-say-kuiper-belt-object\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Say Planet, I Say Kuiper Belt Object&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}