Pluto is, and always will be, a planet. That Tyson guy just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him about Pluto not being a planet so he could further his career with shock and awe, and lots of talk show spots. Talk show spots are where the real money is, not science. He’s a genius (but wrong about Pluto).
He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert
But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line
And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have
You mean the International Astronomical Union? I mean at some point if every world-level expert on the topic is saying the same thing, then maybe you need to let go of what Miss Honey told you in first grade.
Pluto is, and always will be, a planet. That Tyson guy just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him about Pluto not being a planet so he could further his career with shock and awe, and lots of talk show spots. Talk show spots are where the real money is, not science. He’s a genius (but wrong about Pluto).
He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert
But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line
And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have
You mean the International Astronomical Union? I mean at some point if every world-level expert on the topic is saying the same thing, then maybe you need to let go of what Miss Honey told you in first grade.