snarklyboojum | my very educated mother...

You know, I always liked Pluto. I think it has something to do with a report I did on it in elementary school. All the other kids were excited because their planets had rings and cool gasses, and there I was with little tiny Pluto, hanging out on the other side of the galaxy. I was a little disappointed, until in my research (I always was a dorky kid - researching was cool then, too) I came across an illustrated book on the solar system. The entry for Pluto was from an angle of standing on the planet's surface, and staring up at the sun and other planets light years away from you. The surface rocks were blue and bare, and there was this pervasive sense of quiet and loneliness...

I liked it, and it obviously left quite an impression if I can remember a specific drawing sixteen or so years later. In my weird and warping way I decided that Pluto was a planet with personality, and though it wasn't as flashy as the other bodies floating around out there, it deserved an essay or two written about it, as well.

It's strange. It doesn't matter one way or the other, because it's still Pluto and I haven't had anything to do with astronomy before or since, but I miss the little guy already.

Link: "It's all my fault," Brown said at a press conference at Caltech Thursday. "I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto."