You just can't take it away from Pluto. I, for one, am happy to have the little guy back in our solar system, though it does mean I'll have to stop using the joke "when I was your age, Pluto was a planet".
"Some people may find it difficult to handle a planetary paradigm shift, but shift happens, whether we like it or not."
- From Pluto Debate is About More Than One Little World
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a dwarf planet is still a planet! Pluto FTW.
ReplyDeletePluto never stopped being a planet. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. You can find a copy of that petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/planetprotest/
ReplyDeleteAnd you can find audio transcripts of the Great Planet Debate, held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in August 2008, where both sides of this ongoing debate were discussed, here: http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/