Here's some text I found in a news article about Pluto's demotion to "dwarf planet":
"The shift will have the world's teachers scrambling to alter lesson plans just as schools open for the fall term."
Give us some credit. As a middle school teacher, counting out eight planets instead of nine does not top my list of current crises. The girl whose lace bra is on display? There's a crisis.
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If it's not a planet, why does the new classification have the word "planet" in it? Shouldn't it be called a "dwarf something-other-than-planet"?
Good question Matt. Semantically, I think you would have to be a "something" to be called a "dwarf something."
I have no idea why it's dwarf planet instead of something else all together. Jon Stewart did have some great things to say about this week on the Daily Show.
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