Hey everyone :)
There's a great news. I just got a Pluto Blog of Laurel. Her blog is informative, I love it.
Check hers : http://laurele.livejournal.com/
Below is one of Laurel's postings. I am really getting interested in Planets now. Especially when I read her blog :) Anyway, I am not an astronomy student or such, I am just an ordinary student who just got interested in Pluto because of "someone" hehehehe.
"I am an astronomy graduate student, amateur astronomer and writer, and I am writing to you to express my dismay over your booking Mike Brown to speak in a November 14 lecture titled "How I Killed Pluto, and Why I Had It Coming." Specifically, my concern is that Brown represents only one side of a very much ongoing debate over the status of Pluto and definition of planet, yet he misrepresents his point of view as the only legimitate one in the astronomy community.
In his blog "Mike Brown's Planets," Brown has repeatedly denied that a debate even exists, claiming over and over again that everyone has accepted the "new" eight-planet solar system when this is completely untrue. Several hundred professional astronomers signed a formal petition rejecting the IAU decision; their petition can be found here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/planetprotest . ......... "
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