Is Pluto A Planet?

Who cares?! And yet everyone is talking about it, and so, now am I.

Well, I'm sure lots of astronomers are rubbing their hands with glee at the publicity, hoping their grants get renewed/increased.

I mean, does discovering 3 more chunks of rock in a vague orbit around the sun help us resolve any of the universes mysteries?

Astronomy to me has always been very vague (the Hubble Constant, what a joke!). When I was doing some astronomy units in my degree the lecturers would use words like "probably" and "we think" and have no maths to back it up and very little data.

And yet in the UK the research council for astronomy is combined with that of Particle Physics, PPARC. Hmmm. (But thanks for all that money!).