Pluto loses planet status
August 24, 2006
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Scientists from around the world on
Thursday approved a new definition of a planet, downgrading
Pluto’s status to leave just eight classical planets.
After a heated debate, 2,500 scientists and astronomers
voted at the International Astronomers Union General Assembly
that Pluto, which has been called a planet since being
discovered in 1930, would be put into a category of planets
called “dwarf planets.”
Source: reuters