Interestingly, the Hubble Space Telescope recently found that Pluto's moon Charon was not its only moon, and that Pluto has two further moons, named Nix and Hydra, but this did not deter the International Astronomical Union from demoting Pluto from planet status to dwarf-planet.
Such a relegation to the minor league can have far reaching implications and severely disrupt the carefully developed scientific methodology currently used in casting horoscopes by professional astrologers.
And by professionals, I don't mean those hack journalists writing for the newspapers etc, but serious practitioners like Dr Con Huckstar, who holds a PhD in Astrological science, the History of Astrology, and where Hitler's astrologers got it wrong, from America's top three prestigious non-accredited universities.
Dr Huckstar refutes the implication that Pluto was only a planet for little more than 65 years since its discovery at Flagstaff Observatory, citing an important and recent paper on the subject by Doctor Hu, Laucasian Professor of Archeotautology at the University of Oxbridge.
Dr Hu argues powerfully that Pluto was actually known to the ancients, and considers that the discovery in recent years of large and very ancient telescopes at an archaeological dig in Iraq, reported in our usual efficient manner in a previous issue of Alternate Universe, is the missing link.
It seems there is an obscure reference in Homer's Iliad to the planet Pluto, albeit by his Greek name Hades, which has never appeared in English translations owing to the difficulty of rendering a coherent meaning.
However, when the Iliad is read in the original Etruscan, this reference, together with the chance that Homer knew that the Chaldean astronomers observed Pluto through the historic Iraqi telescopes, it all comes together with undeniable logic.
The reference which has so long puzzled scholars refers to Achilles sulking in his tent while “the consort of Persephone (Hades, God of the underworld and Mortician in Chief to the Olympians) passed by the eye of the Bull high above his accustomed domain”.
Homeric scholars just could not figure this out so left it alone - and out.
Now during the accepted time frame for the Trojan War, computer calculations show that Pluto was in Taurus close by Aldebaran – and in fact was in Taurus for the whole lifetime of Achilles.
Clearly Achilles' personal horoscope was being mightily perturbed by this conjunction as he was born under the sign of Taurus, and without realising that old Hades was up there organising his imminent demise and entry to the underworld.
Had Achilles known that Pluto had been hanging about his sign from his birth he may not have become a warrior at all but maybe a wine merchant or at least a tradesman grape treader.
One in the eye for classical scholars too as Hera has been getting all the blame from them these past three thousand years for starting the Trojan War without anyone realising that all along Hades had a piece of the action.
And to compound all this, those damned astronomers have stolen Xena's planet (and moon Dysnomia) from her.
Xena, a household name, and darling of all butch females has been replaced by some obscure Goddess, Eris, whom few people had ever heard of and whose main attribute seems to have been stirring up strife amongst men.
A bit over the top, as the world is full of liberated women who can manage very successfully to stir up strife amongst men without needing any assistance from a minor Goddess parking in their constellation - in fact even a minor level of such assistance could wreak havoc in the world.
Astronomers, have you no shame? At least give Xena a small asteroid by way of compensation.