What’s in a name? Defining a planet.

So astronomers are finally trying to sort out the planet definition thing. It’s about time if you ask me. However, many want to keep the traditional 9 planets for sentimental reasons not scientific.

I find humans funny in this regard; always trying to hang on to the past even though it is proven to be incorrect. They go kicking and screaming into the future and refuse change.

While I have not spent much time researching and thinking about what I’d do with regard to Pluto and all the other objects recently discovered, I can tell you, I would not keep the traditional 9; that would be like continuing to call the Earth flat long after it was proven to be round.