Thursday, August 24, 2006

Pluto


This is a photo of the art-deco entry to the venerable Burrard St Bridge.

Let's feel for Pluto. After 76 years being part of the planetary family, it has been just kicked out. It has just been demoted from being considered a full-out planet, and is now classified as another large object in the Kuiper belt in the outer regions of the solar system. Poor Pluto.

You can read more about Pluto's ignominous fate here:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=c8eaf4c7-557f-451f-9c4c-34911ff53309&k=21787

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