Why the IAU decision to downgrade Pluto may already be all wet

[derby378]

Check out the eccentric orbit of Mu Arae b:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Arae

If Mu Arae b can have a weird orbit and still be called a planet, then so can Pluto. So there.

[bryant69]

1. I don't know - I just think having a planet named after a cartoon dog

is a little embarrassing. I mean what's next? Santas Little Helper?

Bryant
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[derby378]

2. Aw, what a cute little Lord of the Underworld!

:evilgrin:

[Subdivisions]

4. I"m almost certain that the planet was named

Pluto before the Disney cartoon character was created.

[Atman]

3. Wiki said it? I'm sold!

After all, if an encyclopedia article can change every time you read it, why can't a planet change, too?

[Subdivisions]

5. Mu Arae is a star, not a planet and orbits the galactic center...

not a star, as Pluto does.

[charlie]

6. Mu Arae *b* is a planet n/t