As far back as I can remember, there has always been 9 planets. Now we are being told there are only 8. We even had a sentence that helped us remember the 9 planets and their order from the Sun.
“Mark’s Very Extravigant Mother Just Sent Us Ninety Parakeets”.
Now the birds have flown the coup.
I always believed my teachers when they said “9 planets”. Now it turns out it was all a big lie. Just a hoax. What else did the teachers tell us that is not true? Mrs. Grant, how could you? We trusted you in the 6th grade. Now we don’t know what to believe.
I think that pluto should be a plant. it was discoverd and considered one of are 9 planets since the 1930s. how come it took them so long to discover it was not?
That’s even worse. I am having trouble getting my head around the fact that Pluto is no longer a major heavenly body. If I have to start looking amongst the weeds in the garden for it I shall go mad.
I’m disturbed (in oh so many ways). Pluto’s been a planet for my whole life. What did it do so wrong to be stripped of it’s rank? Why, the elimination of a planet;
Might Very Easily Make Juggling Stargazing Unicyclists Nervous
What’s in a name? Who says science isn’t socially constructed? Maybe we should start a campaign for the replanetation of Pluto? What happens if the aliens from Pluto find out that we be dissin’ on their hood?
I’d be more worried about the aliens from Uranus finding out what most english speaking people actual hear when someone says “Uranus”. Especially “Klingons were found around Uranus”.
It’s not so much that they decided that Pluto was not a planet, but that they made a stricter definition of what a planet is. So now Pluto is a “dwarf planet” which it’s own set of rules. There are several other dwarf planets in our solar system so if we include all of them in sciene class our mnemonic devices will actually get longer not shorter.
