Pluto

Q & A about the universe.

NPR's All things Considered interview about the battle over Pluto and its planethood.

Kenneth Chang asks New York Times readers how many planets they want in the Solar System.

In the previous post about Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, The Pluto Files and the turmoil I had inflicted on his life, I wrote, Now, a year and a half after the International Astronomical Union decision, it seems to me that most people have reached the acceptance stage that there are eight planets in the solar system.

One commenter, Laurel Kornfeld, makes it clear that most people is a synonym for certainly not everyone: Acceptance stage of eight planets in our solar system? You have got to be kidding. She adds another 593 words arguing for Pluto’s planethood. . . .

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The article by Kenneth Chang form the New York Times that first noted that Pluto was missing from the planets hanging in the Rose Center for Earth and Space.

As she walked past a display of photos of planets at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, Pamela Curtice of Atlanta scrunched her brow, perplexed. There didn't seem to be enough planets. . . .

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The Forum is a BBC program that invites three prominent international figures to debate their big ideas with each other. Joining Dr. Tyson are Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua and Farzana Shaikh, associate fellow on the Asian Program at Chatham House.

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