Billions of star miles we traveled to meet
Dark and lonely, searching for your heat
Welcome back to the galactic fraternity
Sorry we ever questioned your paternity
Dispatched, our Earthly satellite is near
Taking years for your close-up to appear
Downgraded to dwarf by our cosmic measure
Still, from you we got a gigantic data treasure
The movement of your moons are quite mysterious
Calculating their weird orbits makes us delirious
A big heart shines prominently on your face
Mountains of hardened ice jutting into space
Decades of study we spent to educate
And then scientists determined your fate
Mere mortals held back with poor eye sight
Our vision improved with modern space flight
A member of the distant Kuiper Belt
Your frigid shell too cold to ever melt
Unlike us, your movements are elliptical
We knew so little you seemed quite crytical
At first you were just a tiny white spec
Our old lenses were very low tech
Joyous we granted you official standing
Your addition made our club commanding
Until we upgraded our membership bylaws
Then sent you packing with your planetary flaws
Forgive us, even if you are a dwarf planet
Scientific rulings are never carved in granite
Since we’ve seen and studied you in great detail
It might be awhile before we put you up for sale.
