vantage point

the hoopla on Pluto’s status (is it? or isn’t it?) continues.
the latest update [http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/06/12/pluto-finally-gets-some-respect-sort-of.aspx] on the formerly-the-farthest-planet-from-the-sun has given Pluto something of a boost — or something to that effect — after being downgraded by the International Astronomical Union to a mere ‘planetoid’.

according to the IAU, Pluto and other similar-sized celestial objects, particularly those found [...]