[MAD-AS-HELL]

Dwarfs will be out to protest this ruling...

[keithtoo]

"Solar System Shrinks - Smallest Planets Hardest Hit"

[Hannibal Hamlin]

Does anyone know whether this body's vote will effect science textbooks, or what NASA recognizes as a planet?

[Izzy Dunne]

Pluto was voted off the solar system...

[meandog]

shucks!

[cartoonistx]

[DoughtyOne]

Pluto is exactly what it used to be. This is just the not too frequent deck chair shuffle.

[RightWhale]

Should there be more Pluto threads than there are planets? If so, there are already 250 extrasolar planets, none of which will be demoted to puny-body-not-even-dreaming-of-being-a-planet-some-day, so we need to increase our Pluto thread posting diligence.

[vetvetdoug]

My Dean at professional school was right, he said half of everything you learn here will be obsolete in ten years. Problem is, we don't know which half....

I guess astronomy isn't any different.

[Bommer]

Pluto is a planet and I personally don't care what a bunch of dimwits on a committee say it is or isn't because now they make the rules! Its been a planet for 75 years and is still a planet.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I want the next dwarf planet to be named Dopey, or Grumpy, or maybe Doc (but only if it looks intelligent).

[mikrofon]

Representatives from the outer planetoid Sedna were also in Prague petitioning the International Astronomical Union that their body be granted planetary status; however with the recent decision re: Pluto, the result was not unexpected. The lead representative of their delegation gave the following comments:

I took our letter to the IAU,
They put it in their stack.
Bright 'n' early next morning,
They sent our letter back.

They wrote upon it:
"Return to Sedna -- status unknown.
No such planet, go on home."
Hey, we're not Quaoar .... bigger than that
I wrote for details but my letter keeps coming back...

Again I dropped it at the Union
And marked it special "D"
Bright 'n' early next morning
It came right back to me.

They wrote upon it:
"Return to Sedna -- status unknown.
No such planet, go on home."

So I guess we're gonna-
Return to Sedna....
Return to Sedna....
Return to Sedna....

[MosesKnows]

the new solar system as defined by the International Astronomical Union

Is this real science or is it like the man causing global warming crap?

[AHerald]

"Pluto, the tribe has spoken." Poof.

[SerpentDove]

>>...the International Astronomical Union, meeting in Prague...<<

The U.N. of astronomy.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

With Pluto no longer a planet, the saying to remember the planets in order from the sun no longer works:

Mary's Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights Pining.

Now it has to be: Mary's Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights....wondering what the hell happened to Pluto!

[Centurion2000]

I think I would have preferred to have 12 planets instead of 8.

[Rightly Biased]

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos?

[BJungNan]

How do you make something in the universe disappear? It is still Pluto. It is still there. The next thing you know they will be trying to tell us that humans are causing global warming. Sheessh. This people are really something.

[Tired of Taxes]

PING!

Of interest to homeschoolers...

Also here's a link from an FR homeschooler to a blog with more about Pluto's demotion: Click here.

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