So you go to bed last night as a PLANET

[powerboatr]

and wake up today to find out your just a dwarf
the humility

poor PLUTO


pluto

Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved Thursday to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. But the decision is already being hotly debated.

Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.

"Pluto is dead," said Mike Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet

 

[BamaSixGun]

WOW, you got waaaaay tooooo much time on your hands robert.

get a real job

 

[02SilverStroke]

Just think of all the textbooks that are now out of date.

Also, when they were traversing "The Final Frontier", I wonder if Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew ever went to Pluto. On that note, why isn't "Vulcan" a planet since it gave us Mr. Spock?

 

[jharvey]

Hmmmmm doesn't our academic community have better things to do with our tax dollars and time than to re-write the rules of what makes a planet

 

[oi8228oi]

dont worry in 5 years when all the schools have the new books theyll decide its a planet again and we'll have to buy all new books for all the schools....
besides i only knew of the 9 not those other 3 (ub3234, cercus, sharon)