Pluto Demoted Day 2025
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At that time (and supposedly still) there are nine of them:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Things were going well for a long time until one fateful day in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union decided they would reclassify Pluto as a "dwarf" planet.
Thus, we now suffer Pluto Demoted Day which is observed annually each August 24.
Our need to classify things invariably becomes some self limiting exercise in elitism and overstepping upon the public by some group of self serving so-called "experts".
We have this propensity for allowing people to apply their subjective notions to our universe when in actuality we should just poke an ungreased 10 gauge shotgun up their ass and fire — thereby eliminating the problem of constant interference by those who view themselves in the know.
To hell with the International Astronomical Union. They don't need to exercise such fine control over my life ...
OR my universe.