Screw you guys. I didn't wanna be a stupid planet anyway.Pluto demoted
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.What, just 'cause the guy runs a little crooked? Pluto always was the Little Planet that Could, and now they're forcing him off the kickball field. Sounds to me like they just changed the rules to force out the little guy. Buncha bullies.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union 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.
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Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
(EDIT: D'oh. Tart and I had a psychic mind meld. See below for her much prettier picture.)
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