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Astronomy speaker to discuss Pluto tonight at Kent State Stark
Mary Jo Spletzer
Issue date: 3/3/09 Section: News
Mike Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, will speak at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Timken Great Hall, located in the Kent State Stark Professional Education and Conference Center.
Brown, a guest of this year's Stark campus 2008-09 Featured Speakers Series, will present "How I Killed Pluto, and Why It Had It Coming."
Brown specializes in the discovery and study of bodies at the edge of the solar system. He is best known for discovering Eris, the object in our solar system that eventually led to the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet.
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the Stark campus Conference Center at 330-244-3300. Only overflow tickets remain.
-Mary Jo Spletzer
Brown, a guest of this year's Stark campus 2008-09 Featured Speakers Series, will present "How I Killed Pluto, and Why It Had It Coming."
Brown specializes in the discovery and study of bodies at the edge of the solar system. He is best known for discovering Eris, the object in our solar system that eventually led to the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet.
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the Stark campus Conference Center at 330-244-3300. Only overflow tickets remain.
-Mary Jo Spletzer
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Laurel Kornfeld
posted 3/03/09 @ 12:59 PM EST
Brown should re-title his talk. He didn't "kill" planet Pluto because one cannot kill something that is not dead. Brown, who was for Pluto and Eris being planets before he was against it, is making a huge assumption--that the controversial IAU demotion of Pluto, adopted by only four percent of its members, most of whom are not planetary scientists, and rejected in a petition of hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. (Continued…)
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