Pluto is no longer a planet?
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Scientists from around the world on Thursday approved a new definition of a planet, downgrading Pluto’s status to leave just eight classical planets. I wonder if I missed that question on the ACT or while in grade school because I want credit for my wrong, i mean right, answer! For now, the term planet will be restricted to the eight ?classical? planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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”.
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