Re: ++ 10th Planet is Named XENA!! ++

Joe Fineman <joe_f@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:u64ukf3x0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> "David W. Fenton" <dXXXfenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Isn't it unlikely that a Kuiper Belt object (which is what this
>> "planet" really is, and probably what Pluto should be counted as,
>> as well) would have moons?
>
> Pluto has one, weirdly enough.

I thought it was actually two chunks of rock that are within the
same order of magnitude in size, though one is smaller than the
other?

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