Pluto is, and always will be, a planet. That Tyson guy just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him about Pluto not being a planet so he could further his career with shock and awe, and lots of talk show spots. Talk show spots are where the real money is, not science. He’s a genius (but wrong about Pluto).
He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert
But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line
And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have
Pluto is, and always will be, a planet. That Tyson guy just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him about Pluto not being a planet so he could further his career with shock and awe, and lots of talk show spots. Talk show spots are where the real money is, not science. He’s a genius (but wrong about Pluto).
He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert
But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line
And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have