Comment Pluto's Lament (Score 1) 426
Well, has anyone looked at it from Pluto's point of view? I mean, demoted from planethood to the status of a dwarf? It's a sad day!
"Pluto's Lament"
http://daypoems.net/poems/2801.html
More seriously, I have in my library an 1855 astronomy book that lists 26 (!) planets, and 18 of them are what we would call asteroids today. I think that sort of planet proliferation is the bullet the IAU dodged today, and I'll bet their strict constructionist definition will stand.