GameTavern - Pluto no longer a planet

So you mean when we're old and senile we can actually say "I remember when the solar system had 9, if not 10 planets in it. Not this new fangled 8."

But I say this is ****.
Astronomy is my main bag. It's the only thing I've really ever been interested in, and therefore, really good at, aside from causing ruckus.

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The decision on Pluto at a conference of 2,500 astronomers...

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In the end, only about 300 astronomers cast ballots.

Ahhh, Democracy.

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Now, two of the objects that at one point were cruising toward possible full-fledged planethood will join Pluto as dwarfs: the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, and 2003 UB313

At least they're sticking with some form of consistancy of taking planets away and lumping them together as "reject planets". Ceres would have been an awesome name for a planet in our solar system. Although something about 2003 UB313 doesnt seem to roll off the tongue as easily.

But anyways, I say this is ****. But things like this happen. Rules and guidelines get changed, shifts are made. It's life, it happens. I'm just waiting for these scientists to say dinosaurs never existed, and they were here to test our fai-...wait. :sneaky: