The Globe and Mail has a story about a 10th planet being added to the solar system's group of planets.

It's icy, rocky and bigger than Pluto. And according to scientists who found it orbiting the sun, it's the newest planet on our solar system's block.

The planet — the farthest-known object in the solar system — is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto's current distance from the sun.

“This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system,” Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, said Friday in a telephone briefing announcing the discovery.

Mr. Brown labelled the object as a 10th planet, but there are scientists who dispute the classification of Pluto as such.

My favourite part of this story is the repeated comments about how Pluto may not be a planet. It has been too long, people. Pluto is a planet whether you like it or not!

I had forgotten.

My parents hadn't been born yet when the bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, even I know, we should not forget this moment in our history.

I found this web site that has a model of Hiroshima "before and after".

• It's been 60 years, and people are forgetting
• Hiroshima Survivors Speak
• On the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• They Survived
• Actors evoke Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings
• The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki