Why they changed it I can't say

...people just liked it better that way!

Ahem. In a move that's sure to traumatize parents of grammar school children for at least a generation, an international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition for Pluto that would attempt to maintain it's planetary status despite it's host of non-planetary characteristics. Yup, Pluto may soon become a pluton - named, errr, Pluto. A pluton is defined to be a planet, though distinct from the eight "classical" or "real" planets. The controversy arose in 2003 with the discovery of heavenly body UB313 which was found orbiting Sol at a distance greater even than Pluto's. UB313 was found to be:
(a) small
(b) really cold
(c) kind of obviously, not a planet
(d) a lot like Pluto, actually

It was that last bit that caused some trouble. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), immediately began talks with the Disney corporation who adamantly refused to downgrade Pluto (the cartoon dog) to, Drooly the Eighth Dwarf. Thus, Pluto the planet becomes Pluto the pluton along with UB313 and at least two other icy globs deemed too close to ignore. So, it may soon be the case that we inhabit a solar system of twelve planets, four of whom are plutons. Sources refused to speculate as to weather these second class planets would be afforded full marriage rights.

In other news, my requests that Europe be renamed "euron" continue to be rebuffed. It has been noted both that "euron" sounds funny in English and that Europeans would probably rather not be referred to as "Euronions".