Probably depends on your age. Did you grow up with Pluto being a planet? Having to learn about it in all levels of schooling as a planet? Seeing images of all the planets and Pluto is included?
Or did you grow up afterwards and learn from elementary school that Pluto is not a planet so people who still insist that Pluto is a planet seem anachronistic?
It would be like Hydrogen being removed from the periodic table and being told that from now on Hydrogen is no longer considered an element. Would you still try to say that you feel that Hydrogen really is an element, even though you are wrong and Hydrogen is not an element and never should have been included on the Periodic Table in the first place?
> Did you grow up with Pluto being a planet? Having to learn about it in all levels of schooling as a planet? Seeing images of all the planets and Pluto is included?
Yup, grew up with all of those things.
And when they discovered more Plutoids - some even bigger than Pluto - when I was in high school, I loved watching science change as more information came in. Because that's what science does.
I love that we now have better definitions to more accurately describe bodies orbiting a star, and Pluto is definitely not a planet the same way the 8 planets are.
Pluto was a planet when I learned about it in school. I also learned that it was the one that was discovered last.
When they decided to change its status to dwarf planet, I looked up the reasons behind it, read up on the complexities of the matter, and could see the reasoning behind the change.
Then again, I hadn't reached thirty yet. Even in my forties I find it takes slightly more time to change my mind on some things...
Damn you Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pluto is and always well be a planet