laurelkornfeld
Laurel Kornfeld
laurelkornfeld

That Tiffany is NOT a “star.” She is not even second rate. More like 20th rate and long since forgotten, as it should be.

The only person running a vanity POTUS campaign is Hillary. Just because you choose to judge Jill Stein for being the only progressive candidate left in the race does not mean she is not a viable candidate and does not deserve protection.

Jill Stein appears on the ballot in 45 states and is a write-in option in three more.

NO WAY should lying Chelsea Clinton have Secret Service protection. What a complete waste of taxpayer money. This woman did NOTHING to earn any wealth. How about she get a regular job?

Exactly!

Dwarf planets are planets too. Alan Stern is the person who first coined the term "dwarf planet," and he intended it to refer to a third subclass of planets in addition to terrestrials and jovians.

But “planetoid” is a synonym for asteroid, which refers to objects not large enough or massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (rounded by its own gravity). Pluto and all the dwarf planets do not fit this classification.

They don’t necessarily know the details. Very few are geologists because geologists are more likely to join the European Geophysical Union or the American Geophysical Union. 424 out of 10,000 members voted on the 2006 definition, and most of those were not planetary scientists but other types of astronomers. From the

We're not mostly listening to them in determining what a planet is. Many planetary scientists have never stopped considering Pluto a planet. The same is true for many educators and science writers.

The IAU is not necessarily an accurate representation of the community of professional astronomers. Many choose not to join; the majority of its membership consists of specialists other than planetary scientists. Additionally, amateur astronomers are doing more research today than ever before, and some professional

Pluto is NOT a former planet. Why are you reporting only one side in an ongoing debate? The planet definition you cite was adopted by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists but other types of astronomers, and was immediately opposed by an equal number of—several hundred—professional

Pluto is NOT a former planet. Why are you reporting only one side in an ongoing debate? The planet definition you cite was adopted by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists but other types of astronomers, and was immediately opposed by an equal number of—several hundred—professional

Send Trump to some exoplanet system. Pluto huggers don't want him anywhere near our favorite planet. He's done too much damage to one planet (Earth) already as a developer.

Pluto is not the “former ninth planet.” It is a planet although according to the geophysical planet definition, it is the solar system’s tenth rather than ninth, as Ceres is a planet too.

Pluto could potentially harbor a subsurface ocean, which could host microbial life.

They have to let Charon into The Planets too since Pluto-Charon is a binary system. Now what about all those exoplanets? It is a galactic troupe, so it shouldn't be limited to only performers from our solar system. :)

No one should "move on" from a bad decision that equates to bad science. And it is better to not have a standard than to have a poor one that ignores an object's intrinsic properties and instead focuses only on its location. Many of the people involved in studying Pluto also have strong opinions on its planet status.

Eris is not larger than Pluto. It was initially thought to be so, but in November 2010, a team of astronomers obtained a more accurate measurement of Eris when it occulted a star and found it to be marginally smaller than Pluto.

Pluto is a planet. We don't need the IAU to tell us that. Science does not work by dictate of an "authoritative body." Only four percent of the IAU even voted on this, and most are not planetary scientists but other types of astronomers. Check out the book "The Case for Pluto" by Alan Boyle.

Pluto is not a "sub-planetary body" because unlike asteroids, it is in hydrostatic equilibrium.