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Title: Regarding the Criteria for Planethood and Proposed Planetary Classification Schemes

Authors: S. Alan Stern & Harold F. Levison

Status: To appear in IAU Proceedings 2000.

Abstract: We examine the question of planetary classification, making recommendations both for the criteria by which planethood should be evaluated, as well as for more detailed physical and dynamical subtype classification schemes.



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