So now its 8.

In a surprise last day vote astronomers decided not to go with the new definition of a planet & throw Pluto out of the planet club. Since most of the astronomers had figured that the new definition was a done deal & 90% had gone home & so did not vote, the decision is proving controversial. One senior scientists described the decision as ludicrous and pointed out that under the current definition of a planet Earth, Neptune, Mars & Jupiter are not planets as they have not fully cleared their orbital zones. So maybe we just have 4 planets in the solar system & the thing we live on is just a big round rock that orbits the sun. Yup, the worlds leading astronomers met for 8 days to come up with a formal definition of a planet & made a complete bollocks of it. There’s a science budget well spent.