Poor ex-planet Pluto 'downgraded' again

[one...two...tree 2,762]

WASHINGTON - Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity.

Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.

"This is sort of Pluto's last stand," joked Emily L. Schaller of California Institute of Technology, co-author of a report in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.

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Interesting trivia...

Do you know Pluto?

Most of you know that Pluto was recently downgraded from planet status. Many of you also know that the planet, er, dwarf planet, was discovered right here in Arizona, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. But how much do you know about the decision to toss Pluto from the list of planets?

1. In what year was the non-planet discovered?

a. 1812

b. 1886

c. 1930

d. 1944

2. What is the approximate diameter of Pluto?

a. 1,400 miles b. 10,000 miles

c. 27,000 miles d. 300,000 miles

3. What are the names of the two celestial bodies that were named dwarf planets along with Pluto?

a. Persephone and Gabrielle

b. Juno and Diana

c. Ceres and Xena

d. Vesta and Maxon

4. Which of these is NOT a condition of the new definition of planethood?

a. Has a round shape

b. Has a moon

c. Orbits the sun

d. Dominates the neighborhood

5. Smaller-than-dwarf-planet objects like asteroids and comets will now be called . . . ?.

a. Solar orbit non-classifieds

b. Small solar system bodies

c. Sun-dependent objects

d. Space junk

[almaty 19]

Pluto suxs and so does Goofy

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Pluto suxs and so does Goofy

What would Scrappy Do?

[Dr_LHA 3]

Poor old Pluto.

Someone gave me this T-Shirt for X-mas which always gets laughs at work.

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[almaty 19]

Pluto suxs and so does Goofy

What would Scrappy Do?

same as ol' scooby... run like hell..yelling like a fool...

Poor old Pluto.

Someone gave me this T-Shirt for X-mas which always gets laughs at work.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/product.p...&bestseller

a most excellent shirt brother