Posted on 06/20/2022 8:18:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Europe, and their Euro-centric comrades in the US academia groups, could not tolerate Pluto. It had been discovered by American research!
Yes, it is different from others. But their “definition “ was invented and edited to deliberately exclude Pluto, NOT to define “planets”.
Rather, they should have just recognized trans-Pluto outer planets as a group. Just like “asteroids” and “moons” are a group.
Las is right. We are so screwed.
I remember when Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune was. Made a good bar bet.
We can thank that bigot Neil Tyson for screwing that up.
He wanted his discoveries to be considered planets, there wasn’t a groundswell of support for that, so, if he can’t get credit of a planetary discovery...
He’s not a little nerd, though, he’s an accomplished astronomer, who now takes observational data security much more seriously.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/space/one-find-two-astronomers-an-ethical-brawl.html
I sure hope so
Calling it ‘planet 9’ is stupid. Pluto is ‘planet 9’
Poor Pluto...
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