So, the Astronomers Finally Did Something

And they made Pluto a dwarf planet, decreasing the total number of planets in the solar system 8. According to CNN Student News, several New York elementary school children are furious at this change, and several wrote letters to the IAU complaining. They also listed their thoughts on why they think Pluto should INDEED be a planet.

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Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm sure people whose jobs it is to decide these things are going to care about the opinions and change such a huge decision because small children are complaining. For example, if astronomers continue to discover more and more space objects around the same size as Pluto (oh, say, maybe around a hundred), then wouldn't they be obliged to be call every one of these space objects a planet. And it's hard to make a pneumonic device to memorize every one of those planets. At least compared to nine.

But hey, if eight year-olds feel like proving they're just oh, so smart, then be my guest. When your brain explodes, I'll be in my house laughing.