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August 24, 2006

Save Pluto

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Pluto has been demoted. Jason and Meg are having a mnemonic device contest in protest. Mule is offering a badge for those who want to show their solidarity. Update: Shortly after posting the above satellite images of Pluto and Charon, CNN replaced it with this revisionist image of our solar system: Update (2): Mike says: "Using dwarf as a modifier to cancel out the relationship of the parent noun is insulting." I agree.

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Aug 24, 2006 11:04:14 AM | Terra Cognita

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To understand the real agenda here, go to Demote Pluto and mouseover the area just below the end of the righthand sidebar.

Posted by: orion | August 25, 2006 at 02:04 PM

Please sign the petition!
http://www.petitiononline.com/solnine/petition.html

Posted by: Robert | August 27, 2006 at 04:25 PM

Official Website of Shri Srinivasa Ragavaswamy charitable Trust in South India working towards constructing a temple for Sri Srinivasa Perumal (balaji) with Raja Gopuram which is named as Kovai Thiruppathy.

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