Hubble’s hard won view of Pluto and its moon Charon from 2.6 billion miles. Frozen rocks in the deepfreeze suburbs of the solar system. Until 2015 and a robot spacecraft’s visit, this is the best NASA can do for a portrait of Pluto, the newly demoted planet. The god of the underworld joins an asteroid, Ceres, and a planet-candidate with a number in the Kuiper Belt as one of three new dwarf-planets. Talk about historical revisionism, even though it’s really scientific revision, however scientific it may really be. Solar System Newly Defined: Eight planets, three dwarf-planets. But it really ought to be four dwarf planets, since Charon is almost as big as Pluto.
HONK IF… Then, the inevitable happened: "like-minded astronomers [have] begun a petition to get Pluto reinstated. Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to "Honk if Pluto is still a planet" have gone on sale over the internet and e-mails circulating about the decision have been describing the IAU as the ‘Irrelevant Astronomical Union’".
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 