How many planets?

I just had a sudden worry about the major loser in the reclassification of planets; the fantastic resource that is the nineplanets.org website. However, it seems that they are not too bothered about it and have already nimbly updated their title. Plus, they even had the foresight to purchase eightplanets.org back in 2003 predating the discovery of 2003 UB313 but after the discovery of Quaoar!

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Wednesday 30th Aug 2006 (19:05 BST) | Add a comment | Permalink

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