Goodbye Pluto

Pluto has enjoyed its status as a planet all these years despite many controversies.

This status has come to an end yesterday when astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category.

The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as the other planets.

The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) decision means textbooks will now have to describe a Solar System with just eight major planetary bodies.

I wonder whether this decision will have any impact on astrology. It will be interesting to see the response from astrologers if Pluto has been regarded as a planet all this while.

Will textbooks be updated soon enough? I guess majority of students wouldn't care anyway.