Pluto will be a planet when visible from New Mexico

[LaurenG]

Just an interesting FYI

KOB-TV
March 16

NM - Pluto isn't considered a full-fledged planet by many of Earth's other residents, but it's could be deemed the solar system's ninth member- again-anytime it's visible over New Mexico. A nonbinding memorial approved this week by the state House of Representatives declares that Pluto be designated a planet whenever it "passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies."

The legislation is pending in the Senate. The 2007 session winds down Saturday.

The International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto last August and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

That's caused some hard feelings in New Mexico, home of the astronomer, the late Clyde Tombaugh, who located Pluto at an Arizona observatory in 1930.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17649610/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17649610/

[stellanoir]

1. that is really unbelievably obtuse LOL

[cassiepriam]

2. Ah, Pluto is not going quietly into the night, going to hang on by his toes.

LOL