[Verginius Rufus]

I'm still grieving the loss of Pluto.

Me too. I had seen 8 of the planets, including Marcury, Uranus, and Neptune, and had only Pluto to go when they took away its ID card. It's like if you were running a marathon and they suddenly put the finish line at the 22-mile mark and congratulated everyone for running a marathon when they got to that point.

There's something the matter with the world when Barack Obama gets a Nobel Peace Prize and Pluto gets its planetary status revoked. It wasn't doing anything wrong--it was obeying the laws of gravity and everything. It's not fair.

I once got to hear the late Clyde W. Tombaugh give a talk, back when Pluto was a planet. Wonderful experience.

[fwdude]

Good points, all.

If you’ve got your own moon, you’re a planet, dang it!!!

[ADemocratNoMore]

> I once got to hear the late Clyde W. Tombaugh give a talk, back when Pluto was a planet. Wonderful experience.

His sister was my 5th grade teacher.