This Day in History, 2006: Pluto Demoted

[mabfan]

Exactly one year ago today, the International Astronomical Union, at their General Assembly in Prague, voted to demote Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.

(An excellent post about the public's reaction since can be found at The Enduring Power of Pluto.)

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Semantics aside, Pluto is still a planet and I predict the IAU will recognize it as such at their meeting after the next one, when they will have data from New Horizons to support what is evident to all but Neal de Grasse Tyson and his bunch of hoodlums.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

"Hoodlums"? :-)

Tyson's heart is in the right place, even if he is misguided.