As some of you may have discovered, there is a big controversy over the planetary status of Pluto lately, ever since a small faction of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to demote the celestial body. There seem to be good reasons not to demote it, and there seem to be good reasons it actually doesn't qualify. What are your thoughts?
My initial feeling was that they should leave it, because justifying demoting it for it's odd elliptical rotation seemed completely flawed, logically, but on the otherhand, apparently there are a number of objects that would also qualify as the same quality 'planet' if it wasn't demoted.
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