When It Rains It Pours

National Geographic reports today a new ignominy for the solar system's outermost planet. Make that outermost dwarf planet. Not content to simply demote the planet Pluto from full-fledged planet status to ugly step-sister "dwarf planet", scientists now tell us that Pluto isn't even the biggest dwarf planet. That honor actually belongs to dwarf planet Eris, which is one-third bigger than Pluto. The new finding is creating a public relations nightmare for my employer, which is responsible for New Horizons mission management and spacecraft operations.

Kind of hard to whip up a lot of interest and excitement for a mission to the second-biggest dwarf planet in the solar system.
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