As Pluto gently drifted away….

August 24, 2006

It’s a sad sad day - I like Pluto, it was a funky little planet that sometimes pushed Neptune out of the celestial hiarachy - it had … spunk!

Now a bunch of astronomers in Prague have decided that Pluto can’t be called a planet anymore - it’s a Dwarf Planet instead.

For a while there I thought they were going to let Pluto hang on in there and add a couple of extra planets into the family at the same time - alas not.

There are now officially only eight planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Personally I think it’s all the fault of the bully Neptune - the great granddads of the solar system (Jupiter and Saturn) would have happily let Pluto hang on there but Neptune, the plaground snitch just kept poking his nose in and demanding the removal of Pluto from the fold.

So I now can’t teach my daughter the word ‘MVEMJSUNP’ but must instead just stick to ‘MVEMJSUN’ - I’ll miss that little P!

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