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NOT ANY MORE!
Somewhere in the sky, Interplanet Janet is weeping. . .
Don't forget U.S. kids of earlier generations had learned poems and mnemonic devices saying that there were 48 states. They got over it.
At least kids who watch the DVD will know that at one time Pluto was considered a planet.
And at least we still have pennies in our currency.
It's has a freaking MOON, for gods sake!! How can it not be a PLANET?
And besides, I heard that the Plutans are planning an appeal of the decision at the next Inter Solar System Congress, and if that doesn't work, they will take their case to the Galaxy Supreme Court!!!
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ArizonaKnightWolf wrote:
> It's has a freaking MOON, for gods sake!! How can it not be a PLANET?
Well...not so much. Charon and Pluto pull on eachother's orbits so much that it can't really be said that either rotates around the other. Rather, they both rotate around a point in space, caught in eachother's gravitational fields. So in essence, Charon isn't really a moon of Pluto, the two of them make up a "dual dwarf planet system," which itself has a couple of moons.
But every time my six-year-old son watches "Interplanet Janet," his favorite SHR 'toon, I can't help but think that he's learning something different from what he'll be taught in school, and that will be confusing. But it's a really good point (made earlier in the thread) that it documents what was once understood as fact.
-EdM.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
When some students at my sister's high school performed Schoolhouse Rock Live! one of them crammed "even though it's no longer a planet" into "Interplanet Janet".
Teach your friends the truth!
http://plum.cream.org/HP/poa.htm
They could have just said, "And former planet Pluto was the farthest planet from our sun."
shareHere I am replying to a *really* old thread. My fourth graders are performing School House Rock Live Jr. this spring, and I had to sign the copyright agreement. It states that I can't change the script or songs in any way. So, "Pluto, little Pluto is the farthest planet from our sun" is still in there! I'm surprised that the editors didn't change that. Some of the other songs have slightly different lyrics than the original cartoons, so they should have gone ahead and changed it. I can understand why a high school student had to "sneak" that line in there. haha.
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw." --Jack Handey
Which sucks :( *hugs Pluto*
"Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov