You Can Have My Pluto When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Education

As you may recall, we had some discussion last week about the possible redefining of what constitutes a planet. Instead of expanding to 12 planets, which was a distinct possibility, they're moving backwards to 8:

News Alert 10:01 a.m. ET Thursday, August 24, 2006
Pluto Loses Its Planetary Status

Astronomers adopt historic new guidelines that downsize solar system from nine "classic" planets to eight.

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I believe tomorrow morning we will bid a sad farewell to Pluto.