http://willgater.com/2009/04/16/neil-degrasse-tyson-speaks-to-google/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://willgater.com/2009/04/16/neil-degrasse-tyson-speaks-to-google/#comment-509 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:30:18 +0000 http://willgater.com/?p=1552#comment-509 It is worth noting that at this point, even Tyson is moving towards the view that it might be too early in the field of planetary science to define the term planet at all. He has distanced himself from the controversial demotion vote by four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists, describing it accurately as “flawed.” It is also noteworthy that the IAU decision was immediately rejected by hundreds of professional astronomers in a petition led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. This debate is far from over.

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