[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Huh,

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Kolob! We found you!!!!

[yarddog]

I had not heard of it until fairly recently.

Isn’t it larger than Pluto?

[familyop]

Looks like a nice place. ;-)

[cripplecreek]

Hugh and Ceres.

Some people don’t know these things. Just last week a FReeper asked me what solar system Ceres was in.

[Yo-Yo]

ts name is Ceres (pronounced like series) and you'll likely be hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks.

This is hugh.

[Dallas59]

Knew about Ceres as far back as 8 years old. Bosses at CNN(communist nut network) must've told this little girl to make something or get out.

[dainbramaged]

Just don’t call it Melancholia.

[cripplecreek]

[Fungi]

Not new. They placed a probe on it already.
http://www.space.com/28310-dwarf-planet-ceres-photos-dawn-spacecraft.html

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Known about it since elementary school. Asteroid becomes a planet. More and more teams make the playoffs. The not so famous make the Hall of Fame. C students suddenly become A students. Everybody makes the honor roll. Everybody gets a trophy.

[grumpygresh]

Just the retirement venue most appropriate for 0bama.

[coloradan]

One of the recently-decided criteria of being a planet is that the object in question is large enough to clear out everything near its own orbit of all other stuff, either ejecting it out in a gravitational slingshot, or capturing it as a moon (or meteorite). Pluto hasn’t done this, which is one of several reasons it fell out of planet-hood, and Ceres hasn’t either, there being rather a large number of other objects in the asteroid belt, i.e. in orbits nearby to Ceres’s orbit, but not captured by it and not ejected either.

[left that other site]

So...Pluto (which has moons) gets demoted,
And Ceres (which doesn’t) gets promoted.

I think it is a plot by the greenies, as Pluto was the God of WEALTH (Capitalism), and Ceres was the Goddess of “Whole Grain Goodness”.

[vigilante2]

Are you series?

[ElkGroveDan]

It's not a planet it's an asteroid. It's a stupid game of semantics. Several years ago a bunch of activists got all their supporters together at the annual meeting of the IAU and waited until 2/3 of the membership had left on the last day of the meeting and then rewrote what this self appointed body considers to be a planet verses and asteroid.

Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet and called a "dwarf planet" and the asteroid Ceres along with a few other large solar system bodies out past Pluto were added to that category. Nothing in reality has changed. All that happened was a bunch of people using Alinsky tactics strong-armed their controversial views into "acceptability." The only reason the IAU has any authority to name objects and their features at all is because every who is interested in the topic long ago agreed to be bound by their opinions.

[Red Badger]

It’s Ceres, but not Hugh...........

[JSDude1]

Nuburu, the mysterious planet x that will hail the ending of the world/s

[FrankR]

So...THAT’S where Hillary’s hiding out?!?

[NormsRevenge]

HuGH and CERES Alert!!!

sorry. :-|