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Gary Bergeron wrote:

I have a nostalgic urge to think of Pluto as a planet, but the science guys have a better argument…

Call Pluto a planet if you wish. Remember, whether Pluto is a planet or not is only a fact in the sense of how it comes out using a set of standards arrived at by a committee. In other words, a bunch of people got together and compromised on a definition. It’s not a fact in the sense that it’s a phenomenon repeatable in a lab or in the field. It’s not a fact like “all metals expand when heated,” which happens no matter what some committee decides.