18 Years Later, Proposed Change to IAU Planet Definition is Not the Answer

It isn’t, as the Celestron website one-sidedly states on its page about observing Pluto, a “fun holiday to celebrate.” What today is is the anniversary of a terrible day for science and knowledge, a day in which a very political vote was taken, which has done tremendous harm to science education and communication over the last 18 years. “It” is the 18 th anniversary of the highly controversial…