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Willie R. Meghar wrote:

(Paul Schlyter) wrote:

That's nothing new! Consider Titan, which is bigger and more massive
than Mercury and has an atmosphere as dense as the Earth's atmosphere.
Yet, it's not a planet, because of its orbital characteristics: it
orbits Saturn, not the Sun.

Based solely of the physical nature of the object itself, Titan would
be an obvious planet. Right?

Right, unless the limiting mass for a planet is reduced to a level
that would exclude Titan, in which case Mercury would not be a planet
either.

Willie R. Meghar

I think you mean "increased" rather than "reduced"..... :-)

Anyway, no-one has seriously suggested THAT - right?

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