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The Power of Pluto

The day I started blogging (24 August 2006) I felt so enthusiastic about it that I produced 5 (!) posts. One of them was the reaction to a news report about Pluto being relegated from the Planet league. Well, a story has just been Dugg that the Illinois State Senate unanimously declared Friday 13th “the day of Pluto”, in order to commemorate the discovery of this dward planet by Clyde Tombaugh, the native of the farming village of Streator in Illinois, in 1930.

However, in astrology Pluto rules the motives of death and rebirth, and this couldn’t be more true about the debate around Pluto’s celestial status. The National Geographic News article stresses precisely this: the decision to “demote” Pluto isn’t convincing enough. For this reason, as well, several online publishers protested against the decision by the International Astronomical Union. JustNow blogger reported on the appeal planned by a group of scientists in January 2009. And a year ago, on 15 March 2008, Seattle had seen a public protest march and rally under the tagline “Pluto IS a planet”.

The image is courtesy of Seattlest.

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