Is Pluto a really a Dwarf? What would Grumpy say?

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I'm dissappointed that we didn't bump up the planet count to 12 - one for each sign of the zodiac - I'd be pissed if I were a Scorpio. Don't these astronomers pay attention to their charlaten roots - Bah!

I think the moon is the "planet" associated with the astrological sign, Cancer. So 12 planets would actually be too many. It's been many years since I did any charts so I'm hazy on the details. (I grew up in the flaky Sixties, what can I say?)

The original proposal was to call Pluto and other smaller bodies, plutons. But the word was already in use as a name for Pluto in French, etc. My suggestion would have been plutette, I think it works better than planette. But I'm okay with dwarf planet. Mostly I'm just highly entertained by all the fuss this has caused. Over-excited scientists are a hoot.