So Long, Pluto!

It would appear that an international gathering of astronomers will vote soon to eliminate Pluto as an official planet in our solar system. It all depends on the definition of the word "planet." I know a lot of people probably couldn't care less about this, but I've been following the story for awhile now. And I've come to the opinion that Pluto should not be considered a planet as the other eight planets in our solar system are. It's vastly different than the other eight -- which all have their own idiosyncracies and are not much like one another -- and there are many other bodies in space similar enough to Pluto that including it as a planet would necessitate the inclusion of them as well, giving us a current count of maybe 12 planets and eventually hundreds. No good. I'm content with having only eight official planets in our system.

The one thing that does worry me is if the alien inhabitants of the planet Pluto take offense at this and start some kind of interplanetary war with the rest of us. That would suck.