NASA Chief Starts Another Round of Pluto Scramble. He Wants to Return the Little One Americans Have an Emotional Attachment to to the Planets
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Pluto's status as a planet is once again under discussion and divides the astronomical community. The discussion raises more profound questions about the importance of a planet.
Let us imagine that an Austrian exploration expedition that sailed to the previously uncharted islands in the North Sea in the summer of 1872 had made a minor error in judgment. That a cartographer on board a small ship, based on a fixed idea and initial observations, had overly optimistically estimated the size of the ice-covered land...
Twenty years after his controversial dismissal, Pluto found himself at the centre of an unexpected arm of iron. NASA's new boss, Jared Isaacman, threw a paving stone into the cosmic pond by displaying his ambition: to restore Pluto's status as a planet.
Definitely, Jared Isaacman does nothing like his predecessors, even if he revives a controversy that dates back 20 years. What is the great boss of the American space agency really looking for by putting Pluto back at the centre of the debate?
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