11 Responses to “Goodbye Pluto”

1. Michael Reynolds Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 11:00 am

   Great. There goes the resale value of that Plutonian time share I bought on e-bay.

2. DosPeros Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 11:28 am

   I was going to try to say something witty, but I can think of anything to top Reynolds. That is funny.

3. Eural Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pm

   I’m confused – earlier this week (?) didn’t some international astronomy group meeting in Austria declare that there were now 12 planets according to their new definition? Now there’s only 8? Can someone clarify please?

4. Sean Aqui Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 2:12 pm

   12 planets was a proposal by the IAU leadership; they expected it to pass. Instead that proposal was defeated and this one adopted.

   As a friend of mine pointed out, this could really mess up astrology.

   And with one fewer planet, planetary alignments are easier to achieve — meaning more Doomsdays.

5. Glen Wishard Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 7:06 pm

   Of course Pluto is not a planet. That’s why Gustav Holst refused to write a movement for it in The Planets suite.

6. Glen Wishard Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 7:08 pm

   Geez, some alert person has already updated the wikipedia article for The Planets:

   In August 2006 Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet, demoting it to a dwarf planet, and Holst’s original decision was vindicated.

7. Michael Reynolds Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 8:59 pm

   Glen:

   That was unseemly haste. The body was barely cold. Barely really, really cold.

8. Walrus Says:
   August 25th, 2006 at 10:14 am

   Glen, Holst wrote The Planets in 1918. Pluto was discovered in 1930. That alert person made a mistake. Holst didn’t refuse Pluto, he just didn’t know about it.

9. Walrus Says:
   August 25th, 2006 at 10:16 am

   OK, I’ve read the article now. I didn’t realize that he had been asked to add to the work with the discovery of Pluto. Learn something new every day.

10. Randy Tayler Says:
    August 26th, 2006 at 10:09 am

    Textbook publishers are gonna cry all the way to the bank.

11. Patrick O Says:
    August 27th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    Forget that. Pluto will always be a planet to me. They should have grandfathered Pluto in as a planet.

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