the status of Pluto

jet set, this is for you:
still makes me sad, i had a little galactic crush on pluto

from 2006
"The distant, ice-covered world is no longer a true planet, according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today.

"Whoa! Pluto's dead," said astronomer Mike Brown, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, as he watched a Webcast of the vote. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."

In a move that's already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten, Pluto will now be dubbed a dwarf planet."

(via National Geographic)






(8 planets, sniff sniff)