Look at it this way

Posted by Kromey at 12:10am Aug 29 '06
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Sure, Pluto got booted out of the exclusive planets club. But now it's in the only-slightly-less exclusive club of orbital bodies with proper names, right up there with Haley's Comet and Vesta and Ceres, as opposed to orbital bodies without proper names, such as 2003 UB313 and 951 Gaspra and 253 Mathilde.

Of course, now that they've taken away Pluto, the question must be asked: is Rhode Island next?
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