Advice From God

Dear God,

It’s been a while now since the big object Sedna was discovered in its distant orbit around the Sun, way out past the planet Pluto. Some people say that Sedna is big enough to count as a planet, but other people say that it’s just a big hunk of rock and ice that’s more like a gigantic comet than anything else.

You’re the ultimate authority, God, so what do you say? Is Sedna a planet?

- Carlos

Carlos,

Let me settle this little misunderstanding. Sedna is not a planet. It’s a golf ball.
I was playing cosmic golf with Zeus a few hundred years ago, and he hit his ball into the rough, which is the Oort cloud. We thought we’d never find it, but now we can start our game up again. Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll give you a bit of grace in return, okay?

- God