Comment by BeetleB

> Historically and culturally, Pluto is considered a planet.

A very brief period of history. Give it 50 years and the number of people who will call it a planet will be close to 0.

Let's not overstate Pluto's significance in culture. People call it a planet only because that's what they were taught in school. Not because of other (very few) cultural references. As it has been dropped from the curriculum, so shall it be dropped from people's minds.

Compared to the other planets it's rarely referred to in stories, etc. It has very little significance in today's culture beyond the fact that it was taught in school.

That's not the case for something like Jupiter. If they decided tomorrow that gas giants are no longer planets, it will remain in arts and culture. Pluto? Highly unlikely.

I don't think my kid knows about Pluto. That doesn't bother me in the slightest.