My friend Dan has it right.

Pluto deserves planet status. None of this dwarf planet nonsense.

The picture here is taken from a spacecraft that any day now is going to zoom right past the ninth planet in our solar system.

It’s small. It’s cold — as in, well, beyond frigid! It doesn’t have life, that we know of.

Astronomers demoted Pluto some years back. They called it a dwarf planet.

But it has five moons orbiting it. How many does Earth have? Just one. We’re a planet, though. Pluto is a dwarf.

We’re about to get an up-close-and-personal look at Pluto.

I echo my friend: Return it to planet status! As Dan says: “Don’t listen to those astrologers! Pluto is real!”