This Space for Rent

Oh, no, there are too many planets!

So lets get rid of some of them!

The IAU has decided that 11+ are too many (Merc, Ven, Earth, Ceres, Jup, Sat, Ura, Nep, Plu, Xena, other Kuiper belt objects to be classified in a later draft), so Pluto, Ceres, Xena, and the approximately 6000 other planet-sized objects that clutter up the Kuiper belt are now going to be called "dwarf planets", leaving a grand total of eight planets sitting in the Executive Lounge.

I fully expect that Congress will propose and pass a bill making Pluto a planet again.