Pluto Is A Planet

9 Reasons why Pluto is a Planet

Here's a great article by planetary scientist Dr. Philip Metzger:

9 Reasons why Pluto is a Planet

More nonsense from The IAU and Michael "The Douchebag" Brown

It seems IAU Secretary General Piero Benvenuti and the scientist who discovered a planet but wants people to believe he “killed” one—Mike Brown—are tired of the debate and just want it to go away—or so they say.

Incredibly, Benvenuti thinks the debate has lasted this long solely due to Alan Stern! In a Canadian CBC News article dated March 24, 2017, he makes the following statement when asked why the debate has gone on for a decade after the 2006 IAU vote:

"Because of Alan Stern. Because of the Horizons team … Why am I not getting French schoolboys or Italian schoolboys or Iranian schoolboys writing to me about Pluto?"

Read the whole article at Laurel's Pluto Blog

 

Pluto "Redefinition" is "Bullshit" - Dr. Alan Stern

Nine years ago today, the corrupt officials at the International Astronomical Union rigged an election and attempted to re-work the definition of the word "planet" to exclude the planet Pluto (as if some bunch of self-appointed eggheads has the right to redefine words).

Anyone familiar with what was done, or how it was done, should recognize it for what it was - politically-motivated nonsense.

Or, as Alan Stern, Lead Investigator for New Horizons - NASA's highly successful "flyby" mission to Pluto - so eloquently put it:

"It's Bullshit."

Click HERE for the story at TechInsider.

The Pluto-Planet Discussion FAQ

Gerard van Belle is an Astronomer at the Lowell Observatory (where Pluto was discovered in 1930). He has put together a very comprehensive FAQ on the subject.

Click HERE to read more.

We're there, kids!!!

Pluto is a Planet!!!

"So start calling Pluto a planet right now. Add to the consensus, because that's how science makes progress, by one person at a time being convinced of the truth and adopting it. Science is not decided by votes and you are not required to submit to nonsense." - Dr. Philip Metger

Burn

New Horizons' first pix of Nix & Hydra

Exactly 85 years after Clyde Tombaugh’s historic discovery of Pluto, the NASA spacecraft set to encounter the icy planet this summer is providing its first views of the small moons orbiting Pluto.

Click HERE for the whole story.

Pluto! We Are Coming!

Science Fiction author Kate Rauner has penned a lovely poem abou New Horizons' journey to the planet Pluto.

Click HERE to read it.

In case you missed it - Yesterday's "Hangout" with the Pluto Team