Planet, Moon, Whatever

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500330.html" title="Free Registration Required">Pluto's New Place in Space Could Be as a 'Pluton'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hoping to end the agonizing over whether Pluto is really a planet, an international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition that would save the tiny body's place in the sun's family.<br />n<br />nUnder the long-awaited proposal, Pluto would remain in the pantheon of planets by becoming the prototype of a new subcategory of small, outer solar system objects dubbed "plutons" — planets, but distinct from the eight larger "classical" planets closer to the sun.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIs Pluto a planet or not. I've been agonizing over this for years. My life will not be complete until they decide. As for a "pluton." <br />n<br />nWhat the hell is a pluton? What a stupid name. Political correctness run amok in the astronomical community. Let Pluto be a planet and newer objects of the same size can be… say … PLOOS's. Planet Size Objects Orbiting the Sun. There, problem solved. What a tough solution.<br />n<br />n<strong>Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. Margaret J. Wheatley</strong>