Astronomers Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mark Sykes recently debated what it takes for a solar object to be classified as a planet, but failed to reach a consensus.
Maybe it could be be put to a popular vote, based on an observation made by Tyson:
He added that Americans are much more attached to Pluto than people [...]
Pluto is a planet in the US, a “thing” elsewhere
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 August, 2008 to the comment subset
Pluto is a planet, not a haemorrhoid
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 to the comment subset
Don’t how I missed this, but apparently the Solar System’s outermost “member”, Pluto, together with co-dwarf planet Eris, have now been deemed “plutoids” rather than planets.
I know Pluto lost its status as a fully-fledged planet sometime ago, but it seems I’m not the only one miffed by the new plutoid designation…
Last week, the International Astronomical [...]
