You stated Pluto's status as a planet was in question from the beginning. That's BS. There's quite a few decades between Pluto's discovery and 1992.

That Bryan Marsden and David Hewitt think Pluto should be included in groups they are closely associated with is hardly evidence of unbiased objectivity. Pluto is a Kuper Belt Object just as Earth is an inner solar system object. Shouldn't mean its not a planet.

It boggles my mind that people think that a factor of ten size difference is enough to preclude Pluto as a planet yet bigger factors of size difference do not distinguish it from the majority of the Kuiper belt. A comet in the inner solar system is not a planet because of its location and location should not exclude anything from being a planet.

If a gas giant was discovered in the Kuiper belt the lame definition we now have would preclude it from being a planet. That is JUST PLAIN STUPID!

Regards,
Mark