Maybe Pluto IS a Planet After All

At least it may be in New Mexico.  Witness this RESOLUTION, introduced in the state legislature by Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez:

WHEREAS, New Mexico state university and Dona Ana county were the longtime home of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto; and

     WHEREAS, Pluto has been recognized as a planet for seventy-five years; and

     WHEREAS, Pluto’s average orbit is three billion six hundred ninety-five million nine hundred fifty thousand miles from the sun, and its diameter is approximately one thousand four hundred twenty-one miles; and

     WHEREAS, Pluto has three moons known as Charon, Nix and Hydra; and

     WHEREAS, a spacecraft called new horizons was launched in January 2006 to explore Pluto in the year 2015;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that, as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico’s excellent night skies, it be declared a planet and that March 13, 2007 be declared "Pluto Planet Day" at the legislature.