Brown dwarf or planet?

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Philotas

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Link is broken. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />It should be a planet since it has less than 13x the mass of jupiter, which is where fusion starts; but it's hard to tell. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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qso1

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Setting the stage for a future IAU debate on what constitutes a planet. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
 
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What I'm waiting for is the first direct image of a world that is clearly a planet as opposed to a brown dwarf. Something that has temperatures similar to planets in our solar system. Something below Jupiter mass. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
 
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qso1

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Same here, maybe five years. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
 
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