It's official! Pluto is no longer a Planet

[LynneSin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060824/sc_space/breakingnewsplutodemotednolongeraplanet

BREAKING NEWS: Pluto Demoted, No Longer a Planet Robert Roy Britt

Pluto is no longer a planet.


"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, 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. "Pluto is not a planet. There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."


The decision establishes three main categories of objects in our solar system.

Planets: The eight worlds from Mercury to Neptune.
Dwarf Planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite."
Small Solar System Bodies: All other objects orbiting the Sun.

In other news, Plutoians hearing the demotion have launched an invasion on Earth to prove their superiority

[regnaD kciN]

1. Take this to the Supreme Court!

How dare a handful of self-proclaimed "experts" decide to redefine what a "planet" is?

What's next? Deciding that a "human" has to be white or male?

There were nine planets when I was going to school. There are nine planets now. And no revisionism from self-proclaimed experts should be allowed to change that. :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:


Support Pluto's place as a planet in our Solar System! Remember...if you fail to speak out against this injustice, what's to stop them from doing it again? Why, they may come after Uranus next!

:spank:

[LynneSin]

3. Why, they may come after Uranus next!

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[Deja Q]

4. With their big green probes!

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[LynneSin]

5. STOP WE HAVE LEARNED ALL THAT WE CAN FROM RECTAL PROBING

One of my favorite episodes of "The Simpsons". The Aliens take over Bob Dole and Bill Clinton in order to ensure one of them becomes leader of the free world and enslave us all

[buddhamama]

2. i am bummed.

I was rooting for the Little Guy.

[MrCoffee]

6. I'm telling the IAU to go back to counting stars and leave Pluto alone

bastards won't stop until they rule the universe.

[Placebo]

7. Well Pluto will always be a planet in my eyes!

I heart Pluto.

[graywarrior]

8. So that means I passed that test in the 5th grade. Bastards.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

11. lol

:7

[baldguy]

9. How could Bush loose a whole planet?

[LynneSin]

15. Well he's practically lost this one

:shrug:

[baldguy]

10. dupe

[Shine]

12. That is just so bizarre to me. I wonder what astrologers must think?

:shrug:

[MiniMandaRuth]

13. Poor Sailor Pluto.

She will have to fight, too. And she was my damned favorite Senshi!!!

[pscot]

14. I'm more interested in the new one, Ceres

200 million cubic miles of fresh water and very low gravity. Sounds like just the place for an off world theme park.