The Un-Planet Has Four Moons

The Un-Planet Has Four Moons By Elton Camp Despite being round with an orbit of its own, As being considered a planet, Pluto is gone Since the 1970s, of moon Charon we’ve known Now the number of satellites to four has grown Old Pluto may well look and quack like a duck But in the eyes of astronomers, it is out of luck And to most of us, a planet Pluto will always be Its demotion to “dwarf” makes no sense to me If to humans the same principle we should apply To aspire to being a person, a midget needn’t try (The fourth satellite has just been discovered and hasn't been named yet. Pluto has more moons than Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars combined. But "words mean what I choose them to mean, no more and no less" say the astronomers.)