Pluto fired
by Volker Weber
The Solar System lost a planet today. Pluto, Charon, 2003 UB313 and Ceres are now called dwarf planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune: There are now only eight planets.
Of course nothing has changed out there. ;-)
Comments
Pluto fired...was he too Goofy?
Some day Pluto will leave us looking for a new community where he is welcome...
Pay no attention to Ben, Pluto.
He disney mean it.
And, of course, budding composers wanting to complete Gustav Holts's magnum opus can now put down their quills.
The Planet Suite is complete as originally written and everything is right with the solar system again.
Now I need a new mnemonic rhyme to remember the planet names in the right order.
"Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten" doesn't work anymore. :-(
BTW you missed Charon, formaly known as Plutos moon, in the list of dwarf planets.
Danke. Gleich eingebaut.
What is funny is that the guest speaker at Lotusphere actually taught this idea. I thin it was 3-4 years ago on Business Partner Day. He is here in the US, now to find his name...
I'm sure Pluto will be doing just fine. Unless it starts to rage war or file a lawsuit, claiming its rights, yelling discrimination/profiling, etc2.
Astronomers got a little bored.
@Chris: His name is Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of New York City's new Rose Center for Earth and Space, where Pluto was missed first.
I still have his Lotusphere speech as wmv-file, drop me a note, if you like a copy.
