Words of Worth

I Heart Pluto

Pluto has always held a special place in my heart, partly because I mistakenly thought it was named after the Disney dog, Pluto (actually it’s named after the Roman god of the underworld), and partly because it was always a peculiar and mysterious planet. Well, at least it was until August, 2006 when astronomers declared, “Pluto is dead”, and demoted it from a planet to a dwarf planet.

Even though Pluto was round and orbited the sun, two of the three planet criteria, it didn’t clear its neighboring region of debris…