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IAU Demotes Pluto to 'Dwarf Planet' Status
davidwr writes "It's official. Pluto's been demoted. It's now one of several 'dwarf planets.' I guess we can drop the 'Period' from 'Mary's violet eyes make John stay up nights.'" (Of course, no one says you have to privately agree with the International Astronomical Union.) Several readers have contributed links to the BBC's coverage of the downgrade, as well as the usefully illustrated story at MSNBC.
Your very eager mother served up something else the other night!
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Ahaha, excellent idea! You win 300 internets!
Trolling is a art,
Tim Conway fans everywhere rejoice.
No Snow White?
It's amazing how a tiny group of people can hoodwink the rest of the world.
...with gay apparrel?"
You mean like gays?
Not trolling, I'm serious. The word "gay" had a very specific meaning until the 1980s, and now a thousand years of poetry and literature is screwed. "Deck the halls
What's more, the word "gay" has nothing to do with homosexuality, and ironically half of all homosexuals attempt suicide... gaily attempting suicide!
If the gays can corrupt language, why not astronomers? After all, gayity isn't the provence of homosexuals but planets ARE the provence of astronomers.
Of course, those gay astronomers DID name a planet "Uranus".
WHAT????
I'll have to go check that one.....
Noooooooo!!!!!
Well it seems that the misnaming was pointed out in 1903 and it just took a lot of people a long time to catch up. Tyrannosaurus Rex's real name is Mabel
-1 offtopic.....
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
The mean surface temperature on 2003 UB313 is about 30 Kelvin.
I'd say that's well beyond 'cool' and into 'cold'.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
From the "Please keep uranus covered for the duration of the flight" department: I'm so TIRED OF THESE.... oh, never mind.
Where were you when the voynix came?