They Voted Out Pluto!

What's next Mickey Mouse?

I spent my grade school years memorizing the order of the 9 planets. Now they tell me that Pluto is not a planet. I'm heartbroken - distraught! I liked Pluto - it was small, far and cold. So what if its orbit overlaps Neptune (that big behemoth!). For that reason, astronomers re-classified Pluto as a "dwarf planet" - that's no fun. To be part of the "classical" nine was elite. Pluto got downgraded. Sigh. Double sigh.