More on planet decision

August 19th, 2006

Daniel Fischer, present at the IAU General Assembly in Prague, reports to the HASTRO-L mailing list that the first open debate, in which only planetary scientists took part, about the proposed resolution took place Friday afternoon. It lost about 60:40 against an alternative which would exclude Pluto. Seems also that “plutons” was rejected by a large majority.

Fischer also notes in his e-mail message that these votes is not binding in any way.

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