Planetary classification Memes

The great Pluto debate rages on in office settings too. Saying Pluto "seems like a planet" gets you labeled adorable, but drop the scientific facts about its dwarf planet classification and suddenly HR wants a word. The International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto in 2006, and people are still fighting about it like it's a family member who got disinherited. Some hills are worth dying on... your employment status probably isn't one of them.

The great Pluto demotion of 2006 created two types of people: astronomers who embraced the new dwarf planet classification, and the rest of us who memorized "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" and refuse to switch to "...Nine" nothing. Those of us educated pre-2007 will die on this astronomically incorrect hill. The International Astronomical Union can pry Pluto's planetary status from our cold, dead, scientifically outdated hands.