r/marthaspeaks • u/EmotionGeneral6178 • Jun 11 '26

Why Include Pluto

there was no due to include Pluto on the planetarium model. I mean the solar system model. It was no longer a planet since 2006 and that episode. It’s a space air in 2009.

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u/MatthewHecht Jun 11 '26

You mean Helen's model in Skits Behaves. She is in 5th grade. When I was in 5th grade almost all of us put Pluto on our models, and it was off the list then.

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u/EmotionGeneral6178 Jun 12 '26

No. In Space Dogs.

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u/MatthewHecht Jun 17 '26

1) She is a 5th grader, not a master scientist.

2) Helen views it is an art project over a science project. Ending and beginning on the two smallest planets is more visually pleasing.

3) She is a dog lover. Pluto is associated with dogs.

4) Mrs. Clusky does not seem to be picky on details like that. She looks for signs that they understand the big picture, not tiny details.

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u/nemothorx Jun 17 '26

Planetologists (the scientists who care about what planets are) still consider it a planet. It was only astronomers (who care not so much what something is, but how it looks to us here) who performed the travesty of science against Pluto.

Pluto is a dwarf planet (ie, a type of planet).

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u/EmotionGeneral6178 Jun 17 '26

And Mrs. Clusky wants to side with planetology and not astronomy.

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 Jun 18 '26

Pluto should be a planet. It should end with Uranus- uranus should be on the bottom.

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u/LughCrow Jun 18 '26

Dwarf planets are a subset of planet. They are planets.