Pluto must become a planet again!
Think of Pluto and its tumultuous history: a celestial object first imagined,
then fervently desired, until it was forcibly removed from the sky;
then celebrated as a new triumph of mathematics, but later diminished and denied;
forced to confess to an insignificant mass, and finally marginalized and reduced to the lone
leader of a herd of asteroid buffaloes in the far west of the solar system.
Imagine a planet as American as John Wayne himself, even discovered by a
young farmer-astronomer from Kansas, one of the many "rednecks" of the Great Plains,
suddenly called upon to confront a geometric and
deceitful God who's throwing the dice 6 billion kilometers away...
Just a dot of light at the time, but a dot that we now know to be a fairy tale world,
extraordinarily complex, with numerous moons and plains and mountains in constant mutation.
In 2015, Pluto finally revealed its true nature as a small world,
peripheral but dominant in this orbital region: a desolate province where, for almost a century,
all our dreams as earthlings in search of mysteries have been deposited.
But the short-sightedness, if not the malice, of some scientific circles,
still keeps it in the fictitious and ridiculous underworld of the dwarf planets...
And here we are, once again, challenging this decision and
demanding justice. Justice for Pluto, a lovable planet that we have come to love.