Yes he is, both his public-domain self and trademarked versions!
Pluto is right near Uranus.
"Well, it must be at least a thousand miles away."
--from The Outer Space Looters by the Mad Martians
I think arguments about definitions are inane, and changing the meaning of a word well-established in the language is insidious. All they really accomplished by reclassifying Pluto is to annoy a lot of people.
There are other dwarf planets besides Pluto:
Haumea, Eris, Ceres, and Makemake!
Regardless of how it is classified, TPTB decided it was worth the money to send a space probe to investigate.
Pluto is a planette.
Jealous because they love Uranus
Think about this in relation to climate change.
Obviously Earth isn’t a planet either by their convoluted logic, these too clever by half nitwits did not take into consideration that most of life was wiped out including the dinosaur era by an asteroid some 65+ million years ago. This asteroid could have been crossing Earth’s orbit for a billion years and obviously Earth never cleared it until that fatal day.
Not only does the earth have a Trojan asteroid, Jupiter has literally thousands of them. Actually, Trojans (unfortunate name, be good, boys) are the MARK of a planet. Trojans are trapped in the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of a planet, and are the result of the planet’s gravity, something that Jupiter has plenty of. The Earth can barely keep one, because they keep getting perturbed away by the tug of other planets like, oh, I don’t know, Jupiter.
An interesting sidelight about Jupiter’s Trojans: They are collected in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 Lagrange points. The first ones discovered were named after Trojan heroes from the Illiad, and were clustered mostly in one of the Lagrange points. When there was a camp discovered in the other Lagrange point they were named after the Greek heroes. Unfortunately, before the convention became settled, some Greeks were in the Trojan camp, some Trojans in the Greek camp. These unfortunate individuals are called “spies”.
I worked at the Keck Observatory for almost ten years and interacted daily with the people that voted on the question
of Pluto.
Make no mistake, they are very passionate about their hobby,
astronomy, but most everything they study is old history and of no significance to our modern world.
And it is a HOBBY they made into an industry!
The photon that strikes your face and warms you in the day took over a million years to get here.
Mathematics is your friend.
The Photons striking you all day and night long may have taken billions of years to get to you.
Does that solve our immediate survival problems?
No.
Only place I worry about is Earth.
That is where we live and can exist,
universe is nasty out there.
Go to Mars if you wish, but I’m sure Our Biology
won’t stand up to the rigors of alien worlds.
That being said I’m not some ECO “don’t touch or use anything” nut case like most “Ecologists”.
Conservation and let things grow, harvest when it is safe.
Aloha.
Yes. I never gave up on Pluto.
It just proves that if you can control the language and claim to have Science on your side you can reclassify anything
I mean they never would ever change the definition of a vaccine would they ?
I had a list of words where the definitions had undergone massive changes but cannot find it.
I was taught in school, some decades ago, that Pluto is a planet. It’ll remain a planet for me.
Looks like a planet to me. I’ll just stick with that.