Totally agree, with your analysis of the situation.
What are they going to do with the "New Horizons" mission - turn around and come home now that Pluto is no longer a "major" planet.
Cheers Petra
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Originally Posted by acropolite
I don't agree, after all pluto IMO is more a planet than say Jupiter or Saturn. We could stand on earth and the other rocky planets but not on the gas giants?? Really pluto has more charactersitics in common with earth as a planet than any of the jovian planets; to simply characterise a planet by size is short sighted.
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