Demote Pluto!
August 25, 2006 11:56 AM
Demote Pluto!
Pluto is, at best, a large Kuiper Belt Object, along with its sister planetoid Charon. We cannot let this common speck of rock and ice be raised to the echelons of the majestic gas giants or the diverse terrestrial planets, nor can we allow bureaucratic wrangling to needlessly complicate the classification of what is clearly a simple planetoid among many in the outer solar system. Maybe once we thought of Pluto as a planet with an eccentric orbit, but today history and progress must march forward hand in hand, and they march towards this goal: the Demotion of Pluto!
Pluto is, at best, a large Kuiper Belt Object, along with its sister planetoid Charon. We cannot let this common speck of rock and ice be raised to the echelons of the majestic gas giants or the diverse terrestrial planets, nor can we allow bureaucratic wrangling to needlessly complicate the classification of what is clearly a simple planetoid among many in the outer solar system. Maybe once we thought of Pluto as a planet with an eccentric orbit, but today history and progress must march forward hand in hand, and they march towards this goal: the Demotion of Pluto!
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