This week in history

[gemfyre]

Everyone else has mentioned it and I guess I better record it here for prosperity.

Even though taxonomic changes happen in the plant and animal world pretty much every day (just ask me about lumps and splits within Australia's avifauna over the past 20 years).

Pluto is now officially no longer a planet. Don't worry guys! It's still there doing what it always did.

A rose by any other name is still Pluto.

Comments

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

I think you mean posterity, unless you stand to make some sort of profit off of this post.

But you're right about the classification not changing anything important, despite all the fuss.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Indeed you are correct.

I would like to make money from Pluto's demotion though. ;)