FANNING THE CELESTIAL FIRE

Pluto has been demoted.

I suppose everyone will be writing about the downsizing of our solar system now that our former ninth planet is no longer considered a planet.

Not many people know how many planets there are in the first place, but now they'll have to worry about remembering how many dwarf planets there are along with how many stars are on the U.S flag.

I grew up next door to "I Dream of Jeannie's" Major Nelson, so you might say I'm a little spacey. We took our space news seriously because everyone in my family, except me, worked at Kennedy Space Center, on the missile pads, or in the early bunkers at Cape Canaveral.

Not knowing anything about the new guidelines that define a planet, I just
have to say, "once a planet always a planet" and blow it out your black hole all of you high-fluting astronomers for confusing the you-know-what out of the rest of us.