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Re: What Sun are they referring to?

Message-ID <5AF53F01.1E3F@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date 2018-05-10 23:58 -0700
From The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, alt.astronomy
Subject Re: What Sun are they referring to?
References <5AF525DC.5ADF@ix.netcom.com> <pd3b1p$9ua$1@dont-email.me>

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Libor Striz wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> Wrote in message:
> > "The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined in August 2006 that,
> > in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body which: is in orbit around the Sun,..."
> >
> >
> >
> > What Sun are they referring to????
> >
> 
> There is only one star called the Sun
> and only one star system called the Solar system, same as there is
>  only one the Moon.
> 


So, I guess by definition... there are no other planets in the universe
since the definition only refers
to ...our Sun.

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What Sun are they referring to? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-10 22:10 -0700
  Re:What Sun are they referring to? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-05-11 07:51 +0200
    Re: What Sun are they referring to? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-10 23:58 -0700
      Re: What Sun are they referring to? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-05-11 09:19 +0200
        Re: What Sun are they referring to? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-11 09:09 -0700
    Re: What Sun are they referring to? Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-05-11 17:09 +1000
      Re: What Sun are they referring to? Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-05-11 09:26 +0200
        Re: What Sun are they referring to? Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-05-11 23:13 +1000
          Re: What Sun are they referring to? Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 12:11 -0400
            Re: What Sun are they referring to? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-11 13:05 -0700
              Re: What Sun are they referring to? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-11 21:20 +0000
            Re: What Sun are they referring to? Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-05-12 19:56 +1000

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