Celestial bodies have power
to amaze all,
young or old,
big or small.
People
Live to
Understand
The mystery
Of the
'
Stars, but
Given
Old facts compared with
New feats,
Everyone sees they were wrong.
Rewrite the books the
scientists have done it again
the Galileos of today
From full to dwarf planet,
like self to sun-centered
the transformation causes a stir,
amongst the petty muggles of science:
"Bring back Pluto, you scurvy curr!"
Back in the old days
things weren't so hard
only 8 distant planets
entwined with the stars
then
From Lowell to Harvard,
the news was quick spread...
Pluto, a planet?
But how? and since when?
Burney changed this space ball
from 'Planet X' to 'Pluto'
and the IAU redefined it as
one-three-four,three-four-zero.
The IAU has challenged recent common knowledge,
finally defining a "planet".
to the people's dismay from 9 to 8 our planets went
and Pluto shifted to "dwarf" size status.
Discovered in 1930
disowned in 2006,
Pluto has been taken down
from the throne, been fixed.
Pluto got the boot
August 24, 2006.
Charon stays for now
with moons Hydra and Nix.
Though the people complain
and express frustration,
the IAU feels no chagrin.
they've done their job
and all is solved, at
least for 2006.
Author notes
okay.. so i have comments on each of the paragraphs..
the numbers will corrospond
1: nothing really, just a lame rhyming sceme...
2: (shh... it says pluto's gone lengthwise)
3: allusion to galileo's heliocentric hypothesis
4: there's an allusion to HP in there and to pirate speak.. lol
5: Pluto was only discovered in 1930.. it hasn't been with us for too long...
6: a ninth 'planet' was searched for and studied from Lowell Observatory and then it went to Harvard school observatory to be confirmed..
7: Venetia Burney was the girl who named pluto, the IAU upon kicking pluto from planet status, stuck the number 134340 in front of its name.
7/8: the IAU is the International Astronomical Union and they defined what a planet is (on august 24,2006)
8: Pluto officially went from a planet to a dwarf plant, part of the Kuiper belt.
9: the last line is kinda an allusion to being spayed and how the animal could feel degraded and worthless: now that it has no natural purpose... lol
10: Charon was questioned as to its moon status to pluto, and for now it remains one of pluto's satellites, along with hydra and nix.
11/12: so many people say "they just kicked pluto out like that *snap fingers*" that i felt the need and want to write about it and learn how it happened...
the defintion of a planet is now : 1)orbits the sun; 2) is big enough in mass to maintain hydrostatic equlibrium; and 3) has "cleared the neighborhood" of its orbit....thank you IAU... lol
apparently pluto is not a planet because it has not "cleared the neighborhood of it's orbit"... in other words, it shares it's orbit with some of the objects in the Kuiper belt..
the debate of pluto's planet status has been going on since 2000 or before.. it wasn't just a snap of the finger decision... lol. i don't think many people understand that..
oh and.. it wasn't all about pluto.. if pluto was considered a planet, Charon, Ceres, and Eris would also have to be considered planets.. or pluto was excluded and so were the others.. lol. and since pluto shared an orbit and status so similiar to KBOs (Kuiper Belt Objects), they went with the latter..
hehe.. i had fun and learned something,... did you?
Comments
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muggles! like harry potter!
sweet, it took me till i think the third to realize what was happening -
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hehe.. yeah, i used muggles to.. kinda represent the fact that so many people know so little.. about science and pluto that is.. yeah..lol
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