In Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, there will be a protest this weekend over Pluto’s changed status from “Planet” to “Dwarf Planet.” Of course, this change happened several years ago, but I get the impression that this type of protest happens every year. Ah, Seattle!
Notification came via The Stranger‘s blog:
“Pluto IS a Planet Protest March and Rally”
James Urton
Neil deGrasse Tyson made an excellent television program about the “record of Pluto’s rise and fall from planethood” called “The Pluto Files”, based on his book by the same name. My four-year-old, clutching his blankie and sitting in a newly-won cardboard box, watched the entire program with rapt attention, with only the occasional interjection of “Mom, look! It’s Eris! And Ceres! And Pluto!”.