The deal with Charon I guess is that if Pluto would have been called a planet it would have to also been called a planet. I'm not an astronomer but if I remember correctly Charon for a long time was considered Pluto's moon but in reality they both orbit each other. They spin around a point in space equidistant from each other so one does not actually orbit the other. And it is true that Pluto's orbit is eliptical making it so that at times it's actually closer to the sun the Uranus.

my anus is nowhere near the sun.

*snicker*

^^^ She beat me to it!

How bout this instead...

I've been told, the sun shines out uranus"! I just handed him sunglasses and told him to get back to work!


But anyway...Dear Pluto, I shall miss including you!

But to be truthful I tend to agree with updating/upgrading teminology as we evolve and learn more about the world[s] around us. I don't like going by antiquated rules/laws/terms/legends...etc. Tis the reason I don't agree with biblical stuff! Now that's OLD!

I read online (& wish now that I had copied & pasted the link) about the reaction of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh's widow as being "shook up" but not really upset. Comments by others who knew & worked with him said that he saw this coming (when he died in 1997, the debate had already started) & wasn't happy about it, but would have accepted it...it shows that science is not static, new facts come in & how we see the universe has to be reshaped constantly...no one alive now would remember, but I would bet good money that in 1930 there were some who refused to accept that there was a ninth planet, after all 8 planets had been good enough for centuries...

As to the question of whether Neptune should also be counted out because of Pluto in its path, they have a special footnote in the ratified document that covers the issue...