Those Poor Plutonians

So many cute friendly aliens have now been left without a planet. Do you think they feel discriminated against, being told they only live on a dwarf planet instead of a regular one? We'll have to be careful, once man is consistantly and personally moving out that far, not to treat them as lesser beings due to their planetary status, and to make sure they are properly protected (and represented!) within interplanetary laws. Only we can't call it interplanetary law - I imagine, due to this new developement, such a term would be far from politically correct.

All my astronomy books are now completely out of date. I'm sure a couple star charts are okay, and with luck my telescope has survived, but whole stacks of books are going to become useless. On second thought, I wonder whether the local bookstores will be prepared, and quickly placing all the old books on sales from which I could happily collect.. or whether, unprepared, I could manage to write an astronomy book of my own proudly discluding Pluto from the main planetary list, and find myself published simply because no one else has got so far. OK, granted, the former option seems a lot more likely.

We will need a new way to help children memorize the planets, however; My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Up Nine Planets will no longer cut it. Anyone else in favor of My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Noodles?