I was never willing to write English sentences in my "Coconut Essay" box, but now I intend to do so, just because I read a quite notable essay by some lovely outsiders, again talk about the Pluto topic.
Not simply a essay, though, it's actually someone declaring something at the legislature of somewhere, "declaring March 13, 2007 to be Planet Pluto Day". However, at my side, it seems to be funny. Declaring Pluto to be a planet at a legislature? Are you talking about a childhood story?
But it is real, the state of New Mexico had done it, you may see the original text here: http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/memorials/house/HJM054.html. And seems those guys are making it seems to be, like, Pluto was murdered in Prague last year.
I should take notes on this. There are enough discussions about Pluto, and we astronomers need hard works, not useless word-games. The "Pluto vote" had decided everything that is necessary to be answered, and if you are not satisfying with the decision by IAU, you could just set up your own observatory and use your own star catalogs. For Pluto itself, it's still alive, it's just a dwarf planet than classical now. What's the real difference between a drawf planet or a classical one? Maybe the guys at the legislature know well. However, no difference other than a "134340" permanent number was assigned to Pluto in astronomers' eyes.
And, in my opinion, "Pluto issue" is more than a "astronomical issue" in the states. Indeed, as the state of New Mexico declared, New Mexico plays a very important role in astronomy. But haven't the guys at New Mexico contribute enough great things to astronomy? I mean, do they really need such a thing as "Planet Pluto Day" to extra their contribution?
So, dear sirs, no more on "Planet Pluto" anymore, okay? We have many many things of much importances to do. Thanks to Tombaugh for his great discovery, and thanks to Gutierrez on his beautiful poem, and we should go on setting up the telescope tonight and enlarging our knowledge. Pluto is indeed 3,695,950,000 miles from the sun and its diameter is indeed 1,420 miles and New Horizons is indeed flying towards it. And, it's indeed a member of our solar system as a drawf planet as we know today.