OT: Solar system shrinks to eight planets

[Kenneth Brody]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

    PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Leading astronomers declared
    Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new
    guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets
    to eight.

    After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the
    cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto
    of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in
    1930.

    [...]

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