i think the key point was that we have discovered lots of pluto-like bodies, and suspect there to be lots more, so unless we were to permit all of them to become planets (and imagine, if you could, the terrible consequences of having to admit 20 or more planets) we had to define planets somehow and any sensible definition had to put pluto on the other side with the new astronomical bodies, and not in our privileged planetary group
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Well, Charon put the Nix on Hydra, so they had to get another one.
Or maybe they needed a fourth for bridge (whist for our English cousins).
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but with that out of the way I must address this terrible insinuation. Bridge, of the contract version, is and has been played on these sceptred isles for about as long as it has in the US. Whist was pretty much rendered obsolete by it in the late Victorian era.