LaurelsPlutoBlog

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.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Nineteen Years Later, the Pluto Resistance Continues

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  Nineteen years. That is how much time has passed since the controversial IAU vote in 2006. Planetary science has been in a long-term stale...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Pluto's Hazes and Charon's Geology: Notes from the July Conference

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  The conference “ Progress inUnderstanding the Pluto System: Ten Years Since Flyby ” covered a wide range of topics regarding Pluto, Charon...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pluto and Charon Geophysics and Climate: Notes from the Conference

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“ Progress in Understanding thePluto System: Ten Years after Flyby ” was a focused, informative conference in which scientists spent four-an...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Progress in Understanding the Pluto System: Ten Years After Flyby

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  It is almost impossible to believe, but tomorrow marks the 10 th anniversary of New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby. To commemorate the an...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Oppose cuts to NASA missions: Call your representatives and senators now

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                                             This image shows NASA missions that are cancelled in this bill The proposed US budget reconcili...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Scientists Make Groundbreaking Discovery about Pluto's Formation

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 This sounds similar to the formation theory for Arrokoth. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-make-groundbreaking-discover...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Pluto at 95

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  Happy International Pluto Day! Ninety-five years ago today, on February 18, 1930, 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh discovered Planet Pluto while...
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Laurel Kornfeld
I am a freelance writer and community activist who has worked on many progressive and Democratic political campaigns over the last 25 plus years and a lifelong resident of Highland Park, NJ. I have a BA in Journalism from Rutgers University, an MA in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and an MEd in English Education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education. An enthusiastic amateur astronomer, I have just completed Swinburne University Astronomy Online's Graduate Certificate of Science in astronomy and am pursuing a Masters of Science in astronomy at Swinburne. I am also an actress with experience in theatre and film and have written a full length play. I am currently working full time on a book "The Little Planet That Would Not Die: Pluto's Story."
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