Bad day for Mickey Mouse’s dog
24 08 2006
You’re proud to be the little one of the gang and for ages you’re allowed to hang out with them. Then some petty academic society comes along with a point of order, that really you’re too small to be in the gang any more. I sympathise.
Well au revoir Pluto, I guess you’ll not be gracing my screen with your crazy unecliptic orbit any more, not as a planet anyway. You just got relegated to “lump of rock out there in the Kuiper belt”. Strangely, I feel kind of sad and a sense of loss, almost alarmed now that there are only 8 planets in the solar system. No more will “what’s the farthest planet from the sun” be a trick question, never again can I impress my compadres by telling them that the smallest planet in the solar system is only 1500 miles across.
The universe feels a smaller place without you in our system. Bon voyage Pluto.
sory to hear that pluto
I still think Pluto is a planet . He is just a special planet because he is smaller than the others.
bye bye pluto this is being sizeist!! just because it is small doent mean it cant be a planet!
Great headline in the papers at the end of the Confrence in Prague:
Pluto is Micky Mouse planet
Headline writers well worth their pay!