you're fired!

Did you hear? Pluto is no longer a planet – at least that’s what the international astronomical union (IAU) decided today. The planet has always been a misfit in the solar system because it’s too puny, and travels a deviant path (unlike its eight more obedient sister planets). But it was officially fired from the system this week, based on the IAU’s new “guidelines” (and I’m just paraphrasing). I don’t know about the rest of you, but after believing all my life that Pluto is a planet, and that the solar system has nine planets circling round the sun, it’s hard to shift a paradigm of such, um, cosmic proportion.



sorry hon, you're out