Pluto - like being a member of the Qantas Club

[YQY]

PLUTO has been dealt another blow. Not only was the celestial body demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, but new research by Australian astronomers suggests dwarf planets are not as rare as first thought.


According to Charley Lineweaver of the Australian National University, if the classification of dwarf planets was applied properly there would be at least 50 more of them.


''It's like being a member of the Qantas Club: you think you're elite until you realise everyone else at the airport has a Qantas Club card, too,'' he said

Pluto's reputation further dwarfed

 

[samh004]

Well… if I take it the other way, I’m being compared to a dwarf planet, of which there could be about 50 more. Sounds pretty exclusive to me.