WHO ELSE HAD THIER FAVORITE PLANET BECOME NOT A PLANET ON THIER I6TH BIRTHDAY!?!?

Question

August 24th 2006 pluto(my favorite planet excluding Earth) was classified as a dwarf planet. sad sad day in history.

this was a completely random thought by the way...

Answer 1

Ya poor little Pluto. :( But I view it as Pluto's stand for independence! He was getting tired of all the big planets making fun of him for being small so he and a couple other celestial bodies declared independence from the planets and became dwarf planets. Then they were re-classified as "plutoids" in honor of the planet that started the whole movement, Pluto. Pluto used to be my favorite planet, but now its Neptune. Now Pluto has an entire planet sub-classification named after him. I find that as a sort of an honor and it shows Pluto's independence.

Answer 2

Still a planet though, just a subcategory of it.

Answer 3

Sadly for me, my favorite planet became not a planet long before I was born.  My favorite planet is Ceres.  For about 50 glorious years after it's discovery in 1801, it was classified as a planet.  It's located between Mars and Jupiter.  Did you know there is a planet between Mars and Jupiter?  Sigh... of course not.  Ceres got demoted to being an asteroid before my great grandparents were born, even though it's large enough to be round in shape!  

You see, Ceres never really had a chance because she grew up in the wrong neighborhood.  Specifically, she grew up too close to Jupiter.  The forces of the huge planets gravity keep a really large planet from coming together in that location, even though physics predicts that one should be there.  So instead you get little Ceres with all her asteroid buddies.  I guess she was ruler of the asteroids, for a while.  But now she's back to being a planet!  Well, a dwarf planet, but the word planet is still there!  

Maybe someone will now decide that she's important enough to send a probe there to study her, so we can finally get some decent photos.  I once saw a movie in which Ceres was used as an outpost for human colonists, because it has water.  Scientists also put Ceres on the list of places that could be host to extraterrestrial life---probably microbes of some kind, if anything.  I hope they find it!

Answer 4

Not me, because my 16th birthday was two months later on Oct. 24th, 2006.

EDIT: We're both almost 18!!!

If I had to pick, my favorite planet is Mars.

Answer 5

Why was Pluto your fav planet?  It was the crappiest planet.  In fact, it was so crappy, the other planets wouldn't let it be part of their club.