Glaucus
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From: Sacramento,California
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posted August 25, 2006 10:52 PM
  
The astronomers considered Ceres a planet. It was considered a planet
along with Vesta,Pallas,and Juno...until they kept finding more and
more bodies in the asteroid belt. I knew this long time ago. I thought
most astrologers knew about Ceres once being considered a planet.
The astronomers didn't know about the kuiper belt when Pluto was
discovered in 1930's. Since 1991, they found many objects in the
kuiper belt. When they found one that was larger than Pluto, they were
forced to come up with a definition for planet. Pluto pretty much had
the same fate as Ceres. Pluto is unlike any other planet that it has a
very elliptical orbit that it travels inside Neptune's orbit,and that
is why it didn't meet the planetary criteria. It didn't clear the
kuiper belt just like Ceres didn't clear the asteroid belt. I always
thought Ceres was underrated in Astrology,and that it could have just
as much influence Astrology as Pluto.
Note that when (1) Ceres was first discovered in 1801, it was presumed
to be a "regular" planet (after it was initially considered as a
comet, that is; Uranus had also been thought to be a comet when it was
first discovered, because two centuries ago the concept of new
"planets" was novel). This presumption held true also for the next
three main-belt asteroids (which were found in 1802, 1804, and 1807):
they were all considered new planets of the solar system, and were
counted as the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th planets (or 5th, 6th, 7th, and
8th -- with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus moved to the 9th, 10th, and
11th spots). The fifth asteroid was not found until late 1845, and the
sixth not until mid-1847, and astronomy publications and textbooks for
nearly half a century referred to "eleven primary planets" of the
solar system.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/icq/ICQPluto.html http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9761-three-new-planets-may-join-solar\
-system.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres
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