Thursday, August 24, 2006

Poor Pluto

So after all of last week's excitement, we're not getting thre new planets after all; instead, Pluto is being demoted to a 'dwarf planet':

Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. Astronomers rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club. The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just read this on BBC news. It never has been a plant really though has it.. always the little one at the edge.. there were 9 in the solar system and one fell off... sing along ;)