Utah Is Great, But Does It Have a Planet? Arizona Does

If you have ever looked into all the official state things Utah has, you may think we have everything covered. However, once you hear what our neighbor to the south has, you may feel our lawmakers have dropped the ball. 

It Appears Utah Has All the Official Designations Covered

Utah has a state vegetable, the Spanish sweet onion. We have a Browning pistol as the state firearm. We even have a state grass which is the Indian rice grass. Everything from state song to state fossil is covered. We even have a state crustacean, the brine shrimp. 

Seems like we have it all we need. Then you find out that Arizona has an official state planet. That’s right; Arizona not only recognizes Pluto as a planet, unlike all of the snooty astronomers, and even better they made it theirs. 

A State Giving Pluto Back It's Planetary Status Is a Boss Move

The reason why is because the guy who discovered Pluto spotted it from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. In March of 2024, they signed a bill into law that made them the only state to give it back its planetary status. 

To be fair to Utah’s lawmakers, we do have our own state star. That would be Dubhe. Apparently, it is part of the Big Dipper so that's good. We might want to claim the whole constellation before Arizona get's any more ideas.

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We still need to address the lack of a state planet in the beehive state. It is time for Utah to get on the stick and claim a solar body already. There are only eight left. My vote is that we claim Uranus.