ohh man.. how many times the ultra-brains will change there mind :-)

Now have to re-learn things.. These scienntists just keep changing things. Hope they do not refine their defination of planets more going forward...

But now sure what Pluto will be defined as going forward!!!

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(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/24/content_5003641.htm)
PRAGUE, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Thursday adopted a resolution on planet definition, according to which Pluto had been stripped of the planetary status.
Pluto had been regarded by international astronomers as a planet along with other eight planets since its discovery in 1930.
The decision, made by the IAU at a meeting in Prague, defines a planet as "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
This is the first time that scientists have a formal definition of a planet, which disqualifies Pluto as its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
Thursday's definition left just eight classical planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
The IAU, the world's largest astronomical society, was founded in 1919. It holds its international conference every three years. Enditem