Pluto! PLUTO!! Pluto's a damn cartoon dog. Imagine how "Zena" (2003
UB313) feels! She's bigger than Pluto and never even got to BE a planet.
Like Pluto, she, Chiron and Eros are now officially "planettes" or "dwarf
planets"! Imagine being called a PLANETTE! Gezz. It even sounds
condecending. "It all in how you say it, but really we planets just don't
associate with her kind."

And to add insult to injury the International Astronomical Union has voted
to name her Eris (rather than Zena) after the Greek goddess of discord and
strife. I tell you she's not going to be happy about this! She's even got
a moon!...Oh wait....a "planette companion" named Dysnomia after the daemon
spirit of LAWLESSNESS... When will it end!???

It not over, that's for sure. This kind of thing never ends. I tell you
the whole friken universe is going to update their star charts and then the
IAU on this puny rock will reclassify everything again... As if it just
DOESN'T MATTER what this constant confusion does to interstellar tourism!!

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Diana Kulaga wrote:
Have you seen the current issue of Orchids? Have you? Did you know that
aurantiaca and skinneri are no longer Cattleyas? Huh? Huh? Ditto
bowringiana.


I asked my aurantiaca how it felt about this. It just shrugged and
laughed. "At least we're still orchids," it said. "Imagine how Pluto
feels."

J. Del Col