This is a blog advocating the overturning and/or ignoring of the controversial IAU planet definition that demoted Pluto, the adoption of a broader planet definition that includes all dwarf planets, and the chronicling of worldwide efforts toward these goals.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Tom Siegfried, former editor of Science News: Pluto's Demotion Ignores Astronomical History
They keep on coming! Here is yet another terrific article about the issue of planet definition and the many problems with the 2006 IAU definition, this time by Tom Siefried, former editor of Science News.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/pluto-demotion-ignores-astronomical-history?tgt=nr
Siegfried's article refers to a new scientific paper by Philip Metzger, Mark Sykes, Alan Stern, and Kirby Runyon, which can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04115.
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