ELEVEN Planets? Really?

Dude- where have I been?


Apparently there are eleven, not nine, planets in our solar system= eight regular planets and three dwarf planets: Ceres, Eris and a demoted Pluto. When was somebody going to let me know?


Geez- you stop reading the science section of the Times for five years and all of a sudden your knowledge is outdated!

*smooches...thinking I should log onto NYTimes.com and get the full skinny on these dwarf planets*
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Willkommen, Ceres and Eris!