Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006
I think that today can go down as 'The Day We Lost Pluto.'![Close quote](http://img.timeinc.net/time/i/icon_quote2.gif)
- Astronomer Jay Pasachoff
- After a committee appointed by the International Astronomical Union approved a new definition of planets that would reduce Pluto to a "dwarf planet" along with Ceres, Xena and other icy balls in the solar system