Quote Originally Posted by some Yahoo News Site
Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn't meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.
I don't understand. If the object must clear the neighborhood around its orbit, wouldn't that mean that Neptune is also not a planet? Why Pluto and not Neptune? Their orbits cross each other.

I'm waiting for Bipper to call them racists.