This is not a NASA Website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU.
Space & Planetary Science

Pluto Status Debate Continues

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 21, 2008

Planet Pluto fans rebel against ‘plutoid’ designation, New Scientist

“Defenders of “planet Pluto” have not been appeased by its latest name-change, and are marshalling support for a major scientific meeting devoted to debating its place in the solar system.”

Pluto’s identity crisis hits classrooms and bookstores, USA Today

“Meanwhile, many kids are nearly certain Pluto is still a planet. “I think it’s a planet. But me and my friends, we talk about it sometimes and we go back and forth,” said Natalie Browning, 9, sitting in a park in Manhattan with her family. “Right now, I’m not 100%. I’m just 75%” sure that Pluto is a planet.”

The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.