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Old, old topic revived for unimportant news. I'm an ember fanner. I like the flames... Pretty flames... I'd really hate to see this significant nonissue die.
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Mickey and Donald?
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A bit of a bump, but apparently Time just found out that Pluto's no longer a planet.
Time: The controversy over demoting Pluto Actually it's Neil deGrassy Tyson's new book: the Pluto files. But thats the headline on CNN. Quote:
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It is a fun book filled with lots of facts and events. I knew I would enjoy it as soon as I saw his Dynascope on the back cover. That was my first scope. [I wondered what happened to it.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson was not at the IAU General Assembly and therefore did not vote at all on the Pluto resolutions.
The statement "Pluto's no longer a planet" is not a fact; it's one interpretation in an ongoing debate. Time magazine should treat it that way. Professor William B. McKinnon has a podcast on the Sky and Telescope web site that provides a different view: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skyte.../38235059.html |
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Of course, it can still be debated and even changed. But, I'd bet a Sundae it ain't ever coming back into the big-league fold.
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I'm betting that when all is said and done, dwarf planets will be included as a subclass of planets, meaning Pluto will be back in the "big league fold" but that "fold" will be a lot more broad. |
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Well, whatever the IAU (or you, or me, or anyone else) says, it doesn't change reality. It's all a discussion about terminology that ultimately is about the same thing.
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NPR aired an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson yesterday in which he discussed the Pluto flap. It's worth a read and a listen.
(I am bothered that she kept calling him Mister Tyson. He holds a PhD in astrophysics.)
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