{"id":690155,"date":"2010-03-12T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:25:04","slug":"pluto-finds-its-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/690155","title":{"rendered":"Pluto finds its place"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR>
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A stylized postcard from Seattle’s Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. celebrates
Pluto and its moons. The company is planning a tongue-in-cheek teach-in and
rally at 1 p.m. PT Saturday to protest Pluto’s plight.

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It’s sad to see how many people are willing to pick on a dwarf planet when it’s down. Take Pluto, for instance: A couple of years ago, when I visited a “solar system walk” that was erected near my hometown in Iowa, there was a big black X drawn across Pluto’s name – as if it didn’t belong in the lineup because of its controversial reclassification in 2006.<\/P>
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That was one of the reasons why I wrote “The Case for Pluto.”<\/A> I felt as if somebody<\/EM> had to stand up for the little guy. (You can read all about my Iowa encounter here<\/A>.)<\/P>
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I’m feeling a lot better these days: Over the past week, I’ve been in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois to talk with Midwesterners about the book, and I’ve been heartened by the experience. Although the faded X can still be seen on the solar system monument in Mount Vernon, it looks as if Pluto and its little pals are finding their proper place, figuratively and literally.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. A stylized postcard from Seattle’s Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. celebrates Pluto and its moons. The company is planning a tongue-in-cheek teach-in and rally at 1 p.m. PT Saturday to protest Pluto’s plight. It’s sad to see how many people are willing to pick on a dwarf planet when it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Txx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791083,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690155\/revisions\/791083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}