clearing the neighbourhood

[Chris Aitken]

Way off-topic.

Can anyone explain "clearing the neighbourhood" (as per IAU planet 
defintion) to me and my ten year-old? We're trying to understand why the 
flavour-of-the-month is that Pluto is not a planet.

And, yeah, I have burrowed into a few links in wikipedia.

Thanks,

Chris
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