The Solar system now has officially eight planets. Pluto is a planet no more. I heard it over CNN last night (tag). BBC has a nice report on it:
Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category.
Wikipedia as usual has a more detailed description of the event.
Now, all those religious freaks that insist they holy book(s) has(have) already said that there are nine planets in our system will need to revise their assertion.
The God of the Underworld must be angry.
