Pluto Has Been Kicked Out Of Solar Planet Big Brother System



Pluto loses status as a planet

Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

About 2,500 experts were in Prague for the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) general assembly.

Astronomers rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club.

Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh.

The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.

The decision was made at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in the Czech capital Prague. Over 2,500 astronomers had been voting on a formal definition of a planet.

Poor old Pluto, clearly it did not have Diebold on its side.

If only Bush could be stripped of his Presidency and Blair of his Premiership.