Third graders at Spokane's Balboa Elementary School ranked the planets as an Earth Day salute.

Here is a sampling of their work.

"I think that Pluto should be first because it is a dwarf planet and it should get hotter," wrote Blythe.

Apparently she viewed this planet placement business in literal terms.

A young scholar named Nathan was thinking along the same lines.

"Mercury is too hot. It needs to be last and cool down."

A kid named Elijah suggested that whatever arrangement works best for "astrnots" is fine by him.

Isaac wrote, "I like Saturn the way it is."

I suspect many of us feel that way. More here.

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