{"id":2209762,"date":"2024-03-30T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-signs-bill-making-pluto-official-state-planet\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:51:32","slug":"arizona-governor-signs-bill-making-pluto-official-state-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-signs-bill-making-pluto-official-state-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona&#8217;s governor has officially declared Pluto as the state&#8217;s planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-governor-signs-bill-making-pluto-official-state-planet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2209762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Arizona Governor Katie \u200dHobbs signed legislation\u200d declaring Pluto as the state planet. The bill passed unanimously\u200b in the state House and Senate. Pluto, discovered \u2064in\u200b 1930 by Clyde \u200cTombaugh in Flagstaff, Arizona, holds a special place in Arizona&#8217;s heart.\u200c Governor Hobbs signed House Bill 2477,\u2064 adding &#8220;Pluto is the official state planet&#8221; to the state code, alongside numerous other bills. Your rewritten\u2063 text is concise and effectively summarizes the key points regarding\u200b Arizona \u200bGovernor Katie Hobbs signing legislation\u2062 designating Pluto as the state planet. Great job!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/katie-hobbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Katie Hobbs\">Katie Hobbs<\/a> (D-AZ) has signed legislation designating Pluto as the state planet for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Katie Hobbs\">Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/office-arizona-governor\/news\/2024\/03\/governor-katie-hobbs-legislative-action-update-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"announced\">announced<\/a> on Friday she had signed House Bill 2477 into law on Friday, along with more than 40 other pieces of legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which simply adds \u201cPluto is the official state planet\u201d into state code, passed unanimously, 52-0, in the state House in February and passed overwhelmingly, 24-7, in the state Senate earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Pluto was discovered in 1930 by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Arizona<\/a>, and was considered the ninth planet in the solar system for most of the 20th century. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, bringing the number of planets in the solar system back to eight.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>FILE \u2013 This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto\u2019s surface. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, scientists said that Pluto may have rolled over on its axis eons ago, the result of tidal forces with jumbo moon Charon, and that a subsurface sea is the most likely explanation. (NASA\/JHUAPL\/SwRI via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since Pluto was stripped of its planet title, fans of the now-dwarf planet have protested the decision and insisted it is a planet alongside the likes of Neptune and Mars. Republican state-Rep. Justin Wilmeth, who introduced the bill, said the designation of Pluto as the official planet is meant to commemorate its discovery in the Grand Canyon State.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a major astronomical achievement and it happened here in Arizona,\u201d Wilmeth said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2024\/03\/29\/gov-hobbs-signs-bill-making-pluto-arizonas-official-state-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according to\">according to<\/a> AZ Family. \u201cThat\u2019s something for every single citizen of this state to be proud of and it\u2019s why I decided to sponsor the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other state <a href=\"https:\/\/azlibrary.gov\/arizona-almanac\/state-symbols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"symbols\">symbols<\/a> for Arizona include the white blossom of the saguaro as the state flower, the Colt Single Action Revolver as the state firearm, and lemonade as the state drink.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) signed House Bill 2477, making Pluto the official state planet. Along with over 40 other bills, this legislation was signed into law on Friday. The unanimous passing of the bill effectively amends the state code to include &#8220;Pluto is the official state planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2209763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MixCollage-30-Mar-2024-02-11-PM-2598-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MixCollage-30-Mar-2024-02-11-PM-2598-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}