You're not alone but Mike Brown, the astronomer who ignited that spark, is unapologetic, and has even written a book on it, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming", where he discusses the origins of his quest, which resulted in Eris and led to the elimination of Pluto as a planet due to a rather ridiculous, arbitrary of definition of planet specifically designed to exclude Pluto instead of being, you know, science.
Instead, even the original, suspect claim - that Eris was larger - has now been debunked. Let's hope that Brown's book sells out before the 2% of astronomers who made this change flip again.
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming Hardcover 288 pages Spiegel&Grau (December 7, 2010)
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