Poor Pluto
My grade school science lessons and the mobile I made of the planets have just had a rude shock: Pluto is no longer a planet. Except for Earth, Pluto and Jupiter were always the easiest planets for me to remember because Jupiter was the biggest and Pluto was the smallest and furthest from the sun. But now it's been downgraded to a "dwarf planet."Next thing you know, they're going to tell me that the quadratic equation is bunk, too. That would be easier for me to get over, though, because when they started throwing numbers in with letters, my world got goofier (no pun intended, regarding Goofy and Pluto).
Edited at 8:49 p.m.: A certain bloke (word used appropriately), who might be named Ross, has corrected me. The reasoning for declassifying Pluto as a planet is a bit different than I'd posted. He referenced this link.
Posted by Layla at 8:26 AM, August 24, 2006
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