Demotion? Poor Pluto...

Pluto Demoted, Loses Planetary Status
From Associated Press
9:06 AM PDT, August 24, 2006

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- For decades, it's been confused with a cartoon dog and ridiculed as a puny poser. Now Pluto, the solar system's consummate cling-on, has suffered its worst humiliation: It's not even a planet anymore.

After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, leading astronomers today stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is -- and isn't -- a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.

The historic vote by the International Astronomical Union officially shrinks Earth's neighborhood from the traditional nine planets to eight.

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I just don't know what to think anymore, kicking Pluto out of the club. Seems kind of harsh.