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80's. >> 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. it's not a planet anymore, it's awful. i'm very pro-pluto. >> tom: i think a lot of people missed pluto when it left, eight planets, that's not right. >> i'm a native arizonan, i missed it until it copped that attitude. pluto was actually discovered as a planet at an observatory in arizona. maybe dial it down a little,...

Well we learn there were nine planets. everyone after 2006 will learn, i don't know they'll 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. that's why it lost its planet status. i think we can bring it back. i think it is a healthy debate. >> what's next? >> what's next with the spac...

Made -- shall we say planet status, right? >> it's only 80 miles along. it's 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. we'll 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 didn't look like much as it went by. but you're adding a lot of pictures all at one time. why do we care? i'm going to...