poem17 Feb 2014 09:37 am
![Pluto, By Pat Rawlings / NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.polutexni.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/256px-Pluto2.jpg)
Pluto, By Pat Rawlings / NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
methane dwarf, Kuiper anomaly,
Clyde Tombaugh found you
from a hill in Flagstaff in 1930,
dancing along the edge of the universe.
Victoria Burley, an 11-year-old Oxford girl
named you after the Roman god
of a place cold and distant.
Chaotic orbiter, trans-Neptunian,
what cold comfort, self-knowledge,
what peace there must be to persist
in such refuting definition.
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