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Holy crap... They finally opened the bag and let Schrodinger's cat out... Can you imagine 24 planets instead of 9? Some of these hunks of rock are just that... What does everyone here think? 8 Planets... or 24?

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/08/post_3.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/4119998.html

I don't see the problem, since we allready knew these rocks were there

What's the problem? There are so many planets in the universe it's ridiculous, what about it if there's a few more discovered in our solar system? We don't know jack chit about space or even our system, it's no wonder we have to re-evaluate our image of the solar syem every once in a while.

Besides, the rocks beyond Neptune are now to be called "plutons", while the ones before Pluto will be known as the "8 classical planets". It's history in the making..
Planets will remain planets, while Pluto is to be the new basis for the pluton category.

Blasphemy. Capirnicus and Galileo are turning in their graves.

gls wrote: Blasphemy. Capirnicus and Galileo are turning in their graves.

Err, I doubt it. Were they alive they'd probably be thrilled to bits

btw, do you know what blasphemy is?