An asteroid about the size of a bus flew past Earth on Friday at a distance within about 36,750 miles.

By World's Editorial Writers Our distant friend loses its planet status Say it ain't so, International Astronomical Union. Pluto, the little, wobbly, cold object that has been considered a planet in our solar system since 1930 is no longer considered a planet. Our solar system is down to eight.

By Tulsa World, Okla. Aug. 26--Say it ain't so, International Astronomical Union. Pluto, the little, wobbly, cold object that has been considered a planet in our solar system since 1930 is no longer considered a planet. Our solar system is down to eight.

By - THOMAS R. WEBBER There are ancient cosmic ambassadors that condensed out of the primordial nebula when our solar system was forming. These interplanetary vagabonds fall into two categories: * Rocky debris called asteroids that formed near the sun.

Jet Propulsion Lab -- It begins with a faint trace of light that besmirches an astronomer’s otherwise pristine image of a starfield. The process ends, if the observer is lucky, with an opportunity to dispense a cosmological version of immortality by naming a celestial object for an earthly entity.