Plutophiles UNITE!

From CNN.com: What's a planet? Debate rages on.

It's been almost three years that the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a "dwarf planet" causing a ringing heard around the world from people's heads exploding.

Pluto? NOT A PLANET? How am I supposed to finish the saying 'My Eager Mother Just Baked Us Nine'...whats?? (For those of you who didn't the luck of learning this, its to remember the planets in order.)

Although most of us grudgingly accepted this fate, (I mean who are we to argue with the IAU?!) there are people who demand Pluto be recognized to its full potential. Examples include Illinois' senate "adopted a resolution" saying that the celestial body was "unfairly downgraded" and declared March 13th Pluto Day. Why do they care? Because an Illinoian (Illinoisian? Illinoist?) discovered it back in the day.

New Mexico also seems equally distraught, with it's House of Reps calling February 18th 2009 "Pluto is a Planet in New Mexico Day." (The Illinoian discoverer had worked in New Mexico for a long time).

In general Americans seem quite pissed about the IAU's decision with 90% of its criticisms coming from us. A theory on why that is from one astrophysicist is basically that we like icy balls.

"Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. So here you have a recipe for Americans falling in love with a planet that really is just a tiny ice ball," Tyson told Time magazine.


There still is debate on the IAU's classification of a planet (must orbit the sun, must be crushed into almost spherical shape by gravity due to its size and must not have anything orbiting its space) and if/how Pluto can be better defined.