Pluto loses status as a planet

"My very intelligent mother just said uh-oh! No pluto!" - Stephen Colbert

I just read it in the newspaper, America must be dissapointed, seeing as that was the only planet that they discovered.

"A far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313, currently nicknamed Xena, would also be called a pluton."

Well, Pluto could always be Hercules =P

jalonso: Uranus will be renamed to Urectum. I heard it on TV!

Now that's mean! This little bugger always stayed on th fringes of the system and tried not to catch anybodies attention. Shy maybe but a nice fella to know. But now it's not a planet anymore? That's fachists for you!

So what the news on Your-anus?

Agreed, Darien, there's no room for poser planets in this solar system. If there's one think I can't stand, it's uncool space rocks trying to pass themselves off as a tres cool planet. I understand that there's been more than a few nukes being passed around in recent years. Might I suggest a fun and interesting use for them?

It's about time, I always hated Pluto.

I would have preferred they add a bunch of planets instead of removing one. That'd have been cooler.

This was going on even when I was back at college.  I'd forgotten all about it til I was watching the smarty panel quiz show QI couple years back and it came up as a question.  The answer 9 being stated as wrong.

Im so glad 2500 persons managed to find out  that pluto is a dwarf planet. Thats important stuff.

LOL, MarioH20, is that a "Bananas" reference?

I heard that Jupiter lost planet status too.  Is that true?

It'll still be called pluto, right? Poor pluto D: We need to find out which fact is correct.

The irony is that the unmanned Pluto mission which was launched 10 years ago and arrives there this year may arrive when its no longer called Pluto.

This is a travesty, a sham, and a mockery, its a traveshamockery.

I read a notice that said that they prpoused add  Charon, Ceres and 2003 UB313  as planets.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14364833/

I heard the opposite as well, actually, but I haven't exactly been following it faithfully. The whole thing seems a bit asinine to me, though. I mean, personally I care little enough about the whole thing that I'll keep calling it a planet regardless, and, well... I doubt I'm the only one.

I heard on The Colbert Report the exact opposite.

omg...  i saw a planet decommisioned in my lifetime good find