[Kazan]

I guess we haven't heard very much about dwarf planets until Pluto was put into that category.

that's because the term was just created - there was a long fuzzy line between planets and just very large other bodies.. and they recognized there was a distinct in between so they gave it a name finally and recognized that pluto, ceres and eris are members of that in between

[Flipside]

Heh, if scientists can keep wrongly referring to Cruithne as a 'Moon' then they can damn-well call Pluto a Planet

[Kazan]

Heh, if scientists can keep wrongly referring to Cruithne as a 'Moon' then they can damn-well call Pluto a Planet

yes.. because they're actually refering to it as a moon and not just saying taht tongue-in-cheek because the orbits of Cruithne and earth

[Flipside]

Yes, hence the winking smiley at the end of my post