"Goofy's" planet credentials may have just gotten stronger

It just got a little harder to deny 2003 UB313 the status of an honest-to-goodness planet, no matter what one may think of Pluto.

Turns out that Dr. Brown and his associates have been aiming their instruments in the wrong place- and "Goofy-" already thought to be larger than Pluto- is probably larger still.

There have been indications from the International Astronomical Union (which is currently working on the first-ever scientific definition of the word "planet" in order to resolve the controversy about Pluto and now 2003 UB313 once and for all) that- due to the large number of good-sized, undiscovered Kuiper Belt Objects astronomers suspect are out there- instead of going with something like my suggestion (defining a "planet" as any Solar System object orbiting no primary other than the Sun, and having sufficient mass to be forced by its own gravity into a roughly spherical shape), they may simply decide that if it's bigger than Pluto, it's in.

Not very scientific, perhaps- but good enough to establish "Goofy's" credentials beyond any doubt.