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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1779
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 03:17 pm: | 
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I love this! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8922998
My kids were right on the tail end of a school unit on the planets when Pluto was demoted. They were crushed! Sure, there are more important things for state legislatures to spend their time, votes, and taxpayers' money on. But at least one US state plans to stand up for the little guy:
Do states' rights include the right to decide what's a planet, too? When Pluto was recently demoted from planet to "dwarf planet," it was a blow to the memory of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto while working at an observatory in Las Cruces, N.M. The Las Cruces Sun-News says New Mexico is striking back. The state's House of Representatives voted to declare Pluto a planet whenever it passes over New Mexico.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7898
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 03:39 pm: |
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It figures. Roswell, New Mexico, is the mecca for the alien/UFO crowd so any space men who may have stopped through there to sign the visitor's register may have put this idea into the heads of the legislators. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4088
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 04:51 pm: |
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Pluto shall always be a planet to me  |
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