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Letter: Glitzy name

Published 25 September 2013

From Suzie Shrubb

The look at brown dwarfs finishes by making an argument for a new classification of these bodies, which are neither stars nor planets (24 August, p 37).

The portmanteau “starlet” seems appropriate.
Chichester, West Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2936 published 28 September 2013

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