Writer's Block: Planet's Rights

[danlansdowne]

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I think they should have just left it alone. Grandfather it in, then start the 'dwarf planets' with the next planet that doesn't qualify.

A telling piece of trivia: at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, they have a scale model of the solar system using flag poles at the appropriate distance on their site. Rather than remove Pluto, they left the flag at half mast. That flag could pop back up at any time!

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[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I loved that fact. And I am so sad that I slept through seeing it myself. Exhaustion totally took over as soon as we were on the bus.

Alas, we couldn't keep Pluto and call the next comparable mass a dwarf planet. Do you KNOW what that would be like? I've been a teacher. Imagine a classroom full of thirty planets screaming, "HOW COME HE GETS TO BE A PLANET AND WE DON'T! IT'S NOT FAIR! YOU HAVE TO BE FAIR!!!"

Oy. No thanks!

-=TK