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80s. >> tom: kirsten, should pluto be a planet? >> i was so sad when pluto lost its planet status. you grow up learning the nine planets, this whole part of being a kid, you make the project with the styrofoam balls and you build them all, pluto is the tiny cute one at the end. its not a planet anymore, its awful. im very pro-pluto. >> tom: i think a lot of people missed pluto when it left, eight planets, thats not right. >> im a native arizonan, i missed it until it copped that attitude. pluto ...

Well we learn there were nine planets. everyone after 2006 will learn, i dont know theyll come home and start saying pluto is not a planet anymore. a dwarf planet. it is a generational thing. i think what will happen is it will bring up this debate. why was pluto downgraded? it orbits the sun. it orbits a bunch of other stuff. it is not like the earth that has the moon around it. it is not the big boss in this one area. still other things around it. thats why it lost its planet status. i think w...

Made -- shall we say planet status, right? >> its only 80 miles along. its 4.5 billion-year-old rock. this probe was sent out back in 04. been out there spinning around and sending owl kinds of images back from mars as it flew by. you said blind date. we have not had really any date with this thing. the asteroid looked like this. well go through the animation. as it flew by. this was only a one-minutefully-by. but they have all these images that came back as it went by. it didnt look like much a...