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[atsaunier]

Pluto has been booted out of the planetary club.

The little rock that millions of schoolkids learned was the ninth planet from the sun is a planet no longer, thanks to historic
new guidelines adopted today by leading astronomers.

After a cosmic week-long clash over what qualifies orbital masses for planetary status, the International Astronomical Union
has stripped Pluto of the designation it's held since its discovery in 1930.

The decision by the prestigious international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects now have to meet before they
can be dubbed a planet.

Poor Pluto failed to make the new cut because its oblong orbit
overlaps with Neptune's. It will now be a founding member of the
new club of "dwarf planets."

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[David_Heavey]

It'll always be a planet to me

[m.oreilly]

David_Heavey, on Aug 24 2006, 06:03 PM, said:

It'll always be a planet to me

just like uranus

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Aug 24 2006, 06:21 PM, said:

just like uranus

Dont the Klingons live there??

[atsaunier]

its just weriod how after so many yesrs they can just remove it as a planet..

[David_Heavey]

You don't want to know what lives up my anus

[chriso_86]

OH MY, life is over!! I have no reason to live now that Pluto is no longer a planet. Everything I have ever known is a lie!!! LOL

[Linoman]

There we go after +-70 years of being a planet Pluto is not a planet? Now am I completly but why after 70 years did they decide to change it. Just think how many things have to be rewritten?

[Scuba]

Thats stupid. Why decide now to strike it from the records? Why not just leave it and make life easier for people. Damn International Astronomical allways screwing with people. Oh well.

[Nvyseal]

A Very sad day for Pluto

Pluto is now just a number: 134340
The former 9th planet was assigned an asteroid number

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center, the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.

The move reinforces the International Astronomical Union's recent decision to strip Pluto of its planethood and places it in the same category as other small solar-system bodies with accurately known orbits.

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[chriso_86]

What a stupid number!! Doesn't really matter though, I think everyone living today will still consider it Pluto for the rest of our lives!

[Nvyseal]

Pluto is still pluto to me! Whats really odd is who is going to go through all the history books, library books and science books and change it all?

[chriso_86]

I don't know, but I am going to teach my kids when I have them that Pluto is a planet!!

[m.oreilly]

poor pup, maybe we can divert his orbit, and have him poop on the International Astronomical
unions' lawn...

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[Nvyseal]

Wrong Pluto Mike!