Pluto Day 2025
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Today is Pluto Day.
It is observed each year on February 18 to commemorate the anniversary of the discovery of Pluto in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Long before it's demotion at the hands of insignificant others happened.
It was initially called "planet X" in an effort to place it in the universe according to those criteria felt to be canon. Pluto lies in a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune known as the Kuiper belt. It is the ninth largest and tenth most massive known object to directly orbit the Sun.
The International Astronomical Union diminished its status to "dwarf" planet due to not meeting the criteria to be considered a full-sized planet and being two-thirds of the size of the earth.
Thus bad mouthed by earthlings who should mind their own business and not involve themselves in the matters of celestial objects.
So happy Pluto Day and I hope you appreciate Pluto more than The International Astronomical Union does.