Pluto Promoters Rail Against Demotion of Faraway Favorite ; Bumper Stickers, Petitions for Ex-Planet

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First came the petitions. Then the angry protests, like "My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums." And, inevitably, the bumper stickers: "Honk if Pluto is still a planet."

The United States is arguably a much noisier place, judging by the sheer volume of protests lodged in the two months since several hundred members of the International Astronomical Union voted to define what constitutes a planet, booting Pluto in the process.

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Pluto Promoters Rail Against Demotion of Faraway Favorite ; Bumper Stickers, Petitions for Ex-Planet

Pluto orbits the sun and is nearly round, but the majority ruled it hadn't cleared the celestial "ne...

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