An Editorial From Planet Pluto: "The Solar System Won't Be The Same Without Me"
Hey kids. Planet Pluto here. You know, the ninth planet in your solar system? Well, at least, that is what they have been telling you in school for the last 75 years...
Now, all of a sudden, some nerds point a telescope at me and decide that I might not really be a planet after all! Don't I spin around in the sky day after day? And don't other things spin around me? What more do you want?
Stop by and visit my desolate icy world sometime. I'll admit, I might not have as much to offer you as those other planets that sit a little closer to the sun. I don't have any rings, and my atmosphere is toxic to all life forms. But we got up to -740 degrees this summer! Take that, South America!
So tell your teachers and scientists not to wipe me from the books just yet. I may be small and insignificant, but I am plucky. And if nothing else, at least I am not named Uranus.
Now, all of a sudden, some nerds point a telescope at me and decide that I might not really be a planet after all! Don't I spin around in the sky day after day? And don't other things spin around me? What more do you want?
Stop by and visit my desolate icy world sometime. I'll admit, I might not have as much to offer you as those other planets that sit a little closer to the sun. I don't have any rings, and my atmosphere is toxic to all life forms. But we got up to -740 degrees this summer! Take that, South America!
So tell your teachers and scientists not to wipe me from the books just yet. I may be small and insignificant, but I am plucky. And if nothing else, at least I am not named Uranus.
