We're celebrating "Planet Pluto Day" here at my house. Yes, I know Pluto has been kicked out of the planet pantheon in disgrace. But you have to ask yourself "what did Pluto ever do to deserve such treatment?"New Mexico has designated March 13th as Planet Pluto Day. I had to do a little research to figure out why New Mexico felt the need to do this. Here's what I found out:
March 13, 1855 was the birthday of Percival Lowell (as in Lowell Observatory - of Flagstaff, Arizona). He was born in Boston....his observatory was in Arizona....oh, and by the way, he didn't actually discover Pluto. He postulated its existence and spent many years trying to find it.
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh - who had worked at the Lowell Observatory - he was assigned to look for Planet X. Clyde was born on Feb. 4, 1906....in Illinois...he worked at Lowell Observatory (in Arizona)....OOOOOH...later on he moved to New Mexico and started seeing UFO's. He died in Las Cruces, NM.
Pretty tenuous reasoning to choose March 13th as Planet Pluto Day. But we're going with it.
2 comments:
That picture says it all. Poor Pluto.
I once watched an episode of Wings where the guys have promised to fly a very old, very annoying man to see his brother in Los Cruses (and he says it over and over in a grating way, Los Cruses, Los Cruses...). They finally get there (him driving them insane the whole way) and he gets out the plane and sucker punches his brother.
That guy from Monk was in Wings.
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