WTH is Going On? 7 Top NASA Scientists Say There Are Over 100 Planets in Our Solar System (+Video)

7 TOP NASA Scientists Say We Actually Have Over 100 Planets in Our Solar System.
If the team’s version of planetary definition is indeed widely adopted  it would greatly expand the number of planets in our solar system from the current eight to around 110.

http://releases.jhu.edu/2017/03/16/scientists-make-the-case-to-restore-plutos-planet-status/

Most of us grew up learning that there are nine planets in our solar system. Back in 2006 that all changed, when Pluto was demoted from being labeled a proper planet to its new classification as a dwarf planet, leaving just eight true planets in our celestial neighborhood. Now, a group of scientists says Pluto should definitely be added back to the planet list — oh, and that there are over 100 other objects in our solar system that should also be called planets.

Kirby Runyon of Johns Hopkins University headed a six-man team of authors from five different scientific bodies in preparing their own version of how planets should be classified.  

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/

The other authors are: S. Alan Stern and Kelsi Singer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado; Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona; Will Grundy of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona; Michael Summers of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. All the authors are science team members on the New Horizons mission to Pluto, operated for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

In their paper, the researchers insist that the factors that should define whether a celestial body is a planet or not should relate solely to the object itself rather than things like location. 

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BGR – Article by Mike Wehner
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientist-says-over-100-planets-solar-system-160435174.html

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