“All the planetules and planetismals and all the rest seems to be people having to publish or perish and not having a good idea. ‘Wow! I’ll come up with a stupid name for stuff that’s already got names!’ And Pluto is a planet, damnit! Asteroid. Rocky thing. Comet. Icy thing. Nine planets. How damned hard does it have to be!” “Been trying to do research on our own, have we?” Dr. Foster said with a grin.”
