[John Robinson]

Doesn’t change the science at all regardless if you call it a planet, dwarf planet, or Rosie O’Donnell: it is still a cold lifeless dumb rock in outer space.

[GreenHornet]

A planet must orbit around the sun, it must be massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, and it must have “cleared the neighborhood” around its orbit, which means, simply put, that it must have a certain amount of gravitational pull.

Using that criteria, Rosie O'Donnell should be declared a planet.

[Beowulf9]

[Texas Fossil]

I lived in Silver City, NM for many years. That is the home of the man who discovered Pluto. He had his own observatory there.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Pluto is the only planet discovered by an American. In 2006, during the George W. Bush administration, a group of mostly foreign government employees with generally negative views of the US - mostly astrophysicists, not paleontologists, got together and decided Pluto was not a planet. This by nothing other than their arbatrary, self selected definition.

Some people belive that if Pluto had been discovered by a German or a Frenchman it wold not still be considered a planet by the IAU.

[Snickering Hound]

[Trillian]

Alone! I'm alone! I'm a lonely, insignificant speck on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun!

[Born to Conserve]

“International Astronomical Union” of wankers.

Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't think Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997) was the great-nephew of Clayton Kershaw.

I was privileged to hear Mr. Tombaugh speak once (he was in his 80s then)...great experience. He had tremendous enthusiasm.

[meadsjn]

It was a planet when I was a kid. I don't care what they call it now, it's still in my list when I have to name the planets. It's like singing the alphabet after the commies try to remove the letter "Q".

Quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

A: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't mean it is one.

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