Pluto: Losing its Planet Status?

The new definition offered today would set up a three-tiered classification scheme with eight "planets;" a group of "dwarf-planets" that would include Pluto, Ceres, Xena and many other icy balls in the outer solar system; and thousands of "smaller solar system bodies,"like comets and asteroids.

You know, things like this just ruin school curriculum. :)

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