Pluto

NASA's doing some crazy things this month. First, it launched its first spacecraft in three years since the space shuttle. Now, the U.S. space agency has awakened its New Horizons spacecraft for an encounter with Pluto -- which is still a planet to me.

Were you, like me, bummed when back in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto wasn't a planet? Well, fear not! We may be getting our favorite tiny celestial entity back as one of the official "planets". Maybe. Originally, Pluto was booted because there appeared to be a bunch of other big rocks just like Pluto in the same general vicinity, and they're all consid