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Yvettep
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Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 03:17 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I love this! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8922998

My kids were right on the tail end of a school unit on the planets when Pluto was demoted. They were crushed! Sure, there are more important things for state legislatures to spend their time, votes, and taxpayers' money on. But at least one US state plans to stand up for the little guy:

Do states' rights include the right to decide what's a planet, too? When Pluto was recently demoted from planet to "dwarf planet," it was a blow to the memory of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto while working at an observatory in Las Cruces, N.M. The Las Cruces Sun-News says New Mexico is striking back. The state's House of Representatives voted to declare Pluto a planet whenever it passes over New Mexico.

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Cynique
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Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 03:39 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It figures. Roswell, New Mexico, is the mecca for the alien/UFO crowd so any space men who may have stopped through there to sign the visitor's register may have put this idea into the heads of the legislators.
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Mzuri
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Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 04:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Pluto shall always be a planet to me

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