![]() Having made up their minds that a planet has to “clear its orbit,” they refused to look with new eyes at data about Pluto sent back by New Horizons, which clearly showed it to have complex planetary processes. In 2015, 105 years later, the IAU did essentially the same thing Cremonini did, with the same inaction. If one already knows the “truth,” why look at additional evidence? After all, Aristotle had already determined the Moon is a perfect sphere. When Galileo looked through his telescope in 1610 and saw mountains on the Moon, the phases of Venus, and the moons of Jupiter, scientist Cesar Cremonini declared him wrong and refused to even look through his telescope. He accurately described the IAU vote of 2006 the way the media should have done.Ĭulberson stated, “ The IAU no longer considers Pluto a planet.” THAT is what should have been and should be reported-not “Pluto stopped being a planet.” Not only is the latter statement equal to science by decree of authority it also completely glosses over the fact that an equal number of planetary scientists rejected that definition and to this day, prefer the geophysical definition, according to which all dwarf planets are a subclass of planets. Some of the images come from this blog, but most are from other sources. In an upcoming entry, I will share a comprehensive Power Point presentation by writer Jack Mitch Culberson. By giving the IAU definition the force of law instead of recognizing it as just one view among several in use, they too engaged in medieval behavior. Yet the bigger mistake and public disservice was not by the IAU but by most of the media and educational establishment. ![]() At that time, there were six billion plus people on Earth. It’s that day again-the day that will live in infamy, when 424 IAU members engaged in a throwback to the 16th century and attempted to impose a very flawed planet definition on all of humanity.
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