There were a number of campaigns launched that were aimed at ensuring that Pluto was reinstated as a planet. These met with no success. But all of that just changed, After years of deliberation, the IAU announced in a press release that they have reclassified the icy world—they upgraded ...
minor planets, and large moons as "planets". It was understood that multiple contexts could be used for the word "planet". Throughout the previous 200 years the categories of planets
Pluto's Reprisal is a series of mods created by Digital Hourglass. The series involves Pluto rap battling various celestial bodies such as the 8 major planets, their moons, numerous minor planets, comets, and extrasolar planets in order to get his planet status reinstated. Contents 1 Story ...
"I think there is a strong sentiment among a modest number of astronomers and a great many laypersons that Pluto should be reinstated or that the IAU action on Pluto should be ignored," Maran said. He faults the IAU's 2006 planet definition as being confined to our solar system and exclu...
Now we know more, but only because of this pioneering effort pointing the way. This should result in Pluto being reinstated to at least an "Honorary Planet." (The planet demoters save face and Pluto gets restored to its rightful place in history.) ...
The dwarf planet Pluto and its system of five moons are about as mysterious as the underworld of antiquity that inspired their names. An average of about 3.7 billion miles from Earth, Pluto is the only one of the original nine planets that has yet to be observed at close...
New Horizons was initially selected for funding in 2001 but was excluded from the NASA 2003 budget. Funding for the mission was reinstated after New Horizons was listed as a top priority in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey of 2003–2013, which identifies scientific targets for future exploratio...