Re: Pluto is a rock, not a planet



Widget wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Pluto has been demoted and is no longer a planet.

Finally, common sense prevails.

- Ed Kyle

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