Say it isn't so. Pluto no longer a planet!

Did you hear the news that Pluto is no longer a planet? That's right. The scientific community has ruled that it doesn't qualify. So now there are only eight planets in our solar system instead of nine. I am sad. I liked Pluto. It was my favorite planet, I think because it was the little guy of the planets and also because of Walt Disney's Pluto, a terrific cartoon character. Jupiter, on the other hand, is huge, dwarfing Earth and making tiny Pluto look like a planetary pea. And now, scientists say Pluto can't be a planet at all because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's, and the rule is that one planet cannot overlap another which seems like a silly rule to me. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the Lowell Observatory is most famous for having discovered the planet Pluto. But now all it can brag about is discovering a dwarf planet, which is the new classification for Pluto and some asteroids. Discovering a dwarf planet is no big deal.