Pluto is a Planet Dammit!

I found this today:
Pluto may lose planet status

I remember Clyde Tombaugh fondly, having grown up in the town he taught. Desert skies and empty darkness, filled with a twinkle of possibility and wonder. Clyde Tombaugh found his possibility at the tender age of 23 and opened windows of mystery and hope.
Mike Finley took a walk with him in Future Shoes

"I always say that it feels nice to have discovered a planet," Tombaugh says. "Nice" might not be the most adequate word to describe such a claim, but then, what would be? The magnitude of the universe, Tombaugh says, has kept him from getting a swelled head about his achievements."

Sentimental it may be, but Pluto is just as much of a planet as my childhood dreams were real. posted by Cyndy | link | | |
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