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Pluto Making a Comeback

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-space-mass-that-could dept.

anthemaniac writes "Space.com reports that the American Astronomical Unions Division of Planetary Scientists recognizes the IAU's authority to make a new planet defintion but expects it to be altered. Separately, 300 astronomers have signed a petition saying they won't use the definition. All this stems from the discontent over how only 424 astronomers voted on the proposal that demoted Pluto. Looks like this little dog is on the comeback trail."

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  1. Re:When they demoted Pulto by superyooser · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When Darwin published The origin of species, it pissed off a lot of people.

    Yeah, but not everybody. When Darwin published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, it did not bother the Nazis at all.

    I suspect the reason these people were pissed off is because they can't fathom that new observations means that what they were taught before was wrong, and that the new information gives a better approximation of reality.

    You misspelled "fabrications*."

    * regarding the first two, which absolutely are not and cannot be observed (seen, watched)