It's official, as of this past week. Pluto, once heralded as a planet, then derogatorily referred to officially in the scientific community as a "dwarf planet," has now been unceremoniously stripped of that title and has had it replaced by the unimpressive designation of "plutoid." The International Astronomical Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (no, that's not a fake organization, and yes, we wish we had made it up) made the call on June 11, sentencing school districts worldwide to millions of dollars in science textbook replacement penalties.
Fortunately, Pluto still gets to keep the label of "celestial being," a phrase that works pretty well as a pickup line until the girl you use it on realizes you're calling her a plutoid.
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