I’M A WRITER
I went to Flagstaff in 2017, which incidentally is my favorite town on Earth. And a quarter mile away, on a little Knol, is a telescope that discovered the ninth planet, Pluto, in 1930. Apparently, it was a mistake, and seventy-six years later Pluto was demoted.
(Picture of the nole and the telescope)
Now just why was it demoted? This is a very interesting story that reeks of male chauvinism.
Suddenly, Pluto was reclassified as a DWARF planet with no number. Google Pluto the planet and this is what you see.
- Mar 22, 2023 · Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. There may be millions of these icy objects, collectively referred to as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in this distant region of our solar system.
Are they saying Pluto is just another icy object in the Kuiper Belt?
The actual demotion happened in 2006 at the end of an astrological conference. As half the participants had already left, and in the last hour a vote was taken among the remaining attendees, — is Pluto a planet or not? The difference was eighty votes with 239 votes saying ‘not ‘and 159 votes saying ‘yes’ with eight either too scared or too embarrassed to vote. Such a serious vote in my mind should have been unanimous, or at least like an amendment to the Constitution, a ¾ agreement of the body.
8000 other members of the International Astronomical Union were not given an opportunity to vote.
So, the next question at the meeting was, if Pluto is not a planet, what is it?
They made a new classification and declared Pluto a DWARF planet. With no number.
The end of the ninth planet.
I told you it was a macho thing. But I’ve got to go through some loops before I can suggest this macho thing might be part of Pluto’s demotion.
And incidentally, if you go to Flagstaff and visit the telescope, the VERY FIRST SENTENCE THE TOUR GUIDE SAYS: “WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CALL PLUTO A PLANET.”
(A picture of the exotic planet Pluto with its heart-shape nitrogen plain)
I mean it’s weird. They are so defensive TO REFUSE TO CALL PLUTO A PLANET. THE FIRST WORDS OUT OF THE TOUR GUIDE’S MOUTH!
And I replied. “Then you are allowed to lie? I’m Scorpio and I am still here ‘cause my planet is Pluto. And it’s still in the solar system. Yeah? “
The Tour guide replied, “Well, astrology isn’t a science. And we hold science dearly, here. Pluto is not a planet. It has been reclassified as a DWARF planet by real science.”
I stood there in shock. “With no number? Well. It’s time I go back to astrology:” And I left.
Before Pluto was discovered, my zodiac sign was tenuously linked to Mars an Aries sign. I’m not an Aries. It is a fire sign. Scorpio is a water sign, a fire spewing out of boiling hot water. But it has an undergrown ocean, it has depth. And that is a Scorpio: depth with fire. And its planet is Pluto. So, I couldn’t even arrive on Earth until my rightful planet was discovered and six years later, feeling more comfortable, despite entering during World II, I came to Earth in 1941.
(a picture of my zodiac chart and the caption below it Here is the caption.
You see my Pluto in four degrees Leo? Notice it is squared my Mercury in Scorpio. And squared my conjunct sun in Scorpio. Pluto is in Scorpio. The Sun is in Leo. I was born to write this ‘cause Mercury is the Writer. And born to reinstate Pluto as the rightful NINTH PLANET. And in the Process reinstate Eris, because my Saturn and Uranus are conjunct in Tarus and Trine my Neptune in my Earth house Virgo. Sorry Astronomers, I am steeply grounded and there is fire within me, boiling water. Astronomers you are gonna find out, Astrology may not be a science, but is gonna usurp your fragile unscientific claims, your macho beliefs that twist the truth saying Pluto and Eris are not planets).
Now, astrology may not be a science, but it knows how to label things, give them life and character, something many scientists don’t seem to be bothered with.
I shouldn’t mouth off at scientists too much. They do a lot of wonderful things. But one thing they do that brings them great shame, is trying to rename or reclassify things without full consideration. Like declaring one of the two most exotic planets of our Solar System, a DWARF!
But astrology had a serious dilemma, too. Before Pluto was discovered there were twelve zodiac signs, and only ten solar system objects to identify with them. The Sun, the Moon and eight planets.
And the two signs left out in the cold were Scorpio and Taurus.
So, clumsily, trying to be fair, astrologers attached two planets to a particular sign. Scorpio was attached to a fire sign, Aries governed by Mars, and Venus was attached to an air sign, Libra, and was paired with Taurus, an Earth sign.
But after the discovery of the tenth planet, the astronomy community went silent.
They hushed It. It didn’t make the headlines of the papers. Wouldn’t that have sold a lot of papers? A TENTH PLANET HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.
Nope. Most people didn’t even know there was tenth planet in our solar system, including me. Even astrologers didn’t get the word. If they had there would have been so much jubilation and excitement in the astrology world, WE NOW HAVE A SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECT FOR EVERY SIGN IN THE ZODIAC.
Being that women are a larger percentage of Astrologers; it would have been very exciting. Female power, wisdom, harmony, and aloofness are now blessing the world with the discovery of Taurus’s rightful planet. THE TENTH.
But the astronomical community, mostly males, shied away from that!
Astronomers went through one rant after another. The tenth planet suddenly had its name changed from the female warrior Xena, to Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. She was so hated by the other gods she was the only goddess who was not allowed to go to godly weddings and other godly events.
And to Eris’s first known moon, originally named Xena’s sidekick, Gabrielle, she was renamed Dyrsomnia, the goddess of lawlessness. Anarchy.
Doesn’t that give you clue of why the astronomers changed the tenth planet’s name from Xena, a powerful female warrior, to Eris, the outcast of the Gods. IF you think this is a coincidence, read further. It starts to add up. Gets suspicious.
That wasn’t enough. They saw how little Pluto and Eris were and how far they are removed from the other planets, and they decided the year after muting Eris’s discovery, “They can’t be real planets, they are too small, we need to reclassify them as DWARF planets with no numbers. No ninth or tenth. DWARF planets are just, duh, DWARFS!
They came up with a new requirement. To be called a planet it needs to clear its own orbit. It must be more massive than its neighbors who are near its orbit. It must just plow through them in a disruptive manner.
Pluto, and for that matter Eris, both have small diameters, half the size of Mercury and their nearest neighbors are chucks of rock ice that like asteroids circle the entire solar system like a donut These rocks are called the Kuiper Belt. So, scientists decided, “Oh it’s just another icy object of the Kuiper Belt.” And didn’t even consider Pluto and Eris are both significantly more massive than the ENTIRE Kuiper Belt that circles the ENTIRE solar system.
So, they had to make this new division. They aren’t planets, they are DWARF planets WITH NO NUMBERS NINTH AND THE TENTH. And what are the requirements to define one from the other?
Of course, they had a bit of a problem with Eris. It was hard to determine if it was in the Kuiper belt, it is now almost three times farther away from Pluto than Pluto is from the sun. And it only passes through the Kuiper belt occasionally. Hell, it ain’t too far away from the Ort Cloud. The alleged rim of the solar system. But they decided it was closer to the Kuiper Belt than the Ort Cloud so we will put it in the same package as Pluto. It doesn’t clear its own orbit. Most of the time Eris is totally alone in its orbit far removed even from the Kuiper Belt.
Another rule they invented to make a planet a DWARF planet, is that a DWARF planet must be spherical, meaning it must have enough mass for gravity to make it round.
A little logic here. If Pluto and Eris’s mass is bigger than the entire Kuiper Belt which ENCIRCLES the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM, which is far greater in space than the Asteroid system, Pluto and Eris are NOT in the Kuiper Belt, they are simply visitors. And the requirement, all must go around the Sun to be a planet, granted Pluto takes over 284 years and Eris takes 561 years to go around, and nobody in this room will see a full circle of either of these planets. But like all the other planets they too, circle the Sun.
You would think scientists wouldn’t throw diameter size into it. I mean they know the whole universe in the beginning had a diameter about the size of an atom. If they had learned anything in their endeavors to understand cosmology, they should know Creation doesn’t give hoot about size.
It’s like they made these new rules for one purpose: To degrade Eris and in association, Pluto, and make both non-planets with no numbers, instead of the rightful ninth and the tenth planets!
I mean they could technically say that Pluto the ninth planet was a dwarf planet, and so with Eris, the tenth planet. But that was unacceptable to astronomers. DWARF planets can’t be numbered as real planets.
They went on. They degraded Pluto and Eris even more. They looked for other spherical objects in the solar system and decided to group them with these two DWARF planets.
I mean if you met a dwarf would you call him a dwarf? ‘Hey dwarf, how are you doing?’’ Scientists don’t need to be that crude when labeling things.
There is an asteroid that is sort of round, not fully round like Eris and Pluto. It is about a quarter of the size of Pluto and Eris. It is called 7200 Ceres. It had a number. The number 7200 Asteroid!
(Picture of Ceres)
So, they deleted its asteroid number and made 7200 Ceres like Pluto and Eris, a DWARF planet with no number. Afterall, it was in the astral belt and did not clear its orbital path. It had lots of sidekicks flowing around beside it. And unlike Pluto and Eris, it never left them. Then, they went looking for other objects and they found some that weren’t too spherical, also, a little bit oblong in fact, and scientists broke their rule and called them Dwarf planets too. “Nah, they’re okay, they are almost spherical. They can be in the same class as Pluto and Eris.
(A picture of Makemake, a so called dwarf planet)
Now we don’t have to put numbers on Dwarf planets, there are so many of them, and surely more dwarf planets will be discovered.”
You see what they are doing. In 2006, with no empirical facts to know what Pluto and Eris were like, they decided to equate them with being utter frozen rocks.
And then the final insult. Pluto’s moon Charon is almost spherical and half the size of Pluto. So, because it was almost spherical and less than half of Pluto’s diameter, and obviously didn’t clear its own orbit, some astronomers decided that Pluto and Charon are the only double DWARF planets systems in the known solar system. I scream. Charon is a moon of Pluto.
(Picture of Charon one of the moons of Pluto).
You have a Great Dane dog that you have on a leash and some scientists say to you. “You’re a dog, like the thing you got on a leash.” What an insult!
And when the New Horizon spacecraft went to Pluto in 2015, they were shocked that Pluto had five moons, an underground Ocean, a topography as complex as Earth, penitentes, little snow slabs in high altitudes, things ONLY FOUND ON EARTH AND PLUTO, and a rich atmosphere and beautiful plains free of craters and scores of terrain changes making it a volatile world like here on Earth.
Now tell me, a planet that has a rich atmosphere and five moons, and goes in and out of the Kuiper Belt, and as multi changing topography that make Mars jealous, and has no trouble circling the Sun, doesn’t clear its own orbital path?
And has Horizon left Pluto they detected twelve layers of atmosphere Earth has five, the largest in the solar system. . But Pluto has twelve layers!
That Horizon trip was in 2015. And in 2017 when I visited the nole in Flagstaff, the first words out o the tour guide. “We are not allowed to call Pluto a planet.”
This was in 2017 after they realized what an exotic world Pluto had become through the eyes of Horizon.
(Another picture of Pluto)
I’m a writer and words are everything. In my stories each character has a very important name that resounds through Creation. And words can even tumble one into Nothingness where you are forced to be exactly opposite of who you so want to be forever. And the astronomers are trying to do that to Pluto. And the new planet they found
Granted, I could not have written this story without all the scientists’ hard work and skills that I don’t have.
Now writers do have certain skills I believe that scientists generally lack. They can label things properly.
So as a writer, my recommendation.
Rename Eris, ATHENA, female goddess of Wisdom, and a super female warrior like the fictional Xena, yes, a bit aloof, but being in the remote outskirts of the solar system quite a proper name.
And I rename her first discovered moon the Goddess Arteries, the super virgin hunter, who when Orion tried to rape her, killed him.
And the word DWARF in Creation is meaningless. As I said, Creation doesn’t give a hoot about size. Mere distortions. And an asteroid, no matter how big it is, it is still an asteroid. It never leaves the asteroid belt without a collision.
And objects not perfectly spherical are not DWARF planets. They are what they look like, big stupid ugly three-dimensional blocks of frozen rock. And when you get a better view of Eris, it likely, like Pluto, will surprise you. You already know it has an atmosphere, abet, a frozen one so far removed from the Sun at present. Otherwise, it would have taken you longer to find it. IT’S SHINING FOR YOU. IT IS A SHINING BEACON FOR EARTH and the coming female power.
And remember Pluto is alive with the public. And Athena will be, too. And as a scientist you have the opportunity of welding with Astrology and making all your hard work and relentless devotion to your profession, come to life in the minds of the masses. In astrology Pluto aligns with the masses.
And to the scientist building a world through facts, it is the storytellers that bring your facts to life. RENAME ERIS AND ITS FIRST DISCOVEREDN MOON: ALTHENA and ARTERIS.
REINSTATE PLUTO TO ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
What inspired me to write this? My daughter gave me a t-shirt for Father’s Day, THE NINTH FOREVER. I wore it two full days writing this. (I”ll give you a picture of me in that shirt)
And being a writer, knowing words’ names can lead to expanding the mind, stirring the neurons in your brain. I shout.
PLUTO THE NINTH AND ALTHENA THE TENTH, FOREVER.
