New Planet Standards - Q & A
There is a lot of hullabaloo in the news the last few days about planets. Is Pluto a planet or not? Are there now going to be 12 planets in our solar system? What is a pluton? BBC News has a nice Q&A of the new planet proposal to make everything a little clearer.
The most surprising thing I walked away from the story is that there has never been an agreed upon definition of a planet. Thought that the scientific community would have hammered that out a long time ago.
