Primordial Ooze

Pluto is not a real planet anymore, it’s a Dwarf Planet. From the San Francisco chronicle:

(08-24) 08:21 PDT -- Pluto was shafted by the world's astronomers today, demoted to the lowly status of "dwarf planet" and leaving the solar system with its original eight true planets plus countless other objects that must now be called "small solar system bodies." After more than two years of controversy that started when astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech announced his team had discovered a "10th planet" and was finding many more far out in the icy region billions of miles beyond the sun where comets are born, the International Astronomical Union voted a set of rules defining just what a planet is and what it's not.
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Now I have to break it to my kids. I actually think this news will depress them.

Things you probably haven’t though of:

• How does the family of the late Clyde Tombough, who discovered the planet Pluto, feel about this?
• What about the folks at the Lowell Observatory say, since it was there that Pluto was discovered.
• The fancy way to describe the discovery is the first Trans-Neptuniun object. Bleh.