Mr. RICHARD BINZEL (Astronomer): The word planet is strictly defined to be a body rounded by self-gravity, which has cleared its orbital zone.

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Over a decade ago he helped pioneer the idea of the cube-sat satellite that is a small self contained box that could ride with other such boxes in the payload of a rocket where it could conduct low gravity experiments, biological experiments of do other interesting activities when released into space.

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