Catherine Cesarsky and IAU Snobbery With Regard to Pluto's Designation

Catherine Cesarsky and IAU Snobbery With Regard to Pluto's Designation

Keith Cowing
Saturday, June 14, 2008

"Plutoids": the new name for Pluto-like dwarf planets, PhysicsWorld

"Catherine Cesarsky, president of the IAU, dismisses such past protests. "They form a very small part of the astronomy community," she told physicsworld.com. She added that "practically nobody" is now trying to get Pluto reclassified as a planet. ... Cesarsky admits that she has not yet heard the response from the astronomy committee for the rebranding. "I don't think there will be a big [reaction]," she says. "A few people make a lot of noise."

Editor's note: OK, perhaps Catherine needs some feedback on all of this from the 99.999% of humanity who had no say in all of this - people who are now being told that what they learned in school is now wrong - based upon esoteric, and hard to understand reasons. Well, you can tell her what you think. You can email her at catherine.cesarsky@cea.fr or call her at +33 1 69 08 82 3. You can also contact the IAU directly at iau@iap.fr.

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Mercury - Venus - The Moon - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Pluto

RADWIN empowers service providers so they can deliver high speed Wireless broadband Access services.

Find hose reels and watering systems

Quality leather chairs in a variety of styles.

News from Commercial Space Watch

- Recovery Act: Water Management in California: Cyber Infrastructure for Irrigation Optimization

- Former Shuttle Astronaut-Astronomer, Sam Durrance, Joins the CSF Suborbital Researchers Group

- Satellite-Based Earth Observation Market Entering Phase of Impressive Growth

- NASA and Lighting Science Sign Agreement to Develop Lighting for Space Exploration

- Sky No Longer the Limit for Digital Magazines

- NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

- Aerojet Engines Support Space Shuttle Atlantis' Re-stocking Mission to International Space Station

- Suborbital Applications Researchers Group Meets in Washington

- NewSpace Is Under Attack

- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Thruster for Unmanned Lunar Lander

- bacus Technology Corporation Awarded NASA Kennedy Space Center Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year - 2009

- NASA ARC Memo; Procurement Sensitivity of the Competition of Aeronautics and Exploration Mission Modeling and Simulation Request for Proposal NNA09274979R

- Lockheed Martin Tests Carbon Nanotube-Based Memory Devices on NASA Shuttle Mission

- Leonid Meteor Shower to Perform Late Tonight

- Sri Lanka signs agreement with SSTL for space capability

- Decorate your home with nautical decor

- Dieses Portal stellt Ihnen die besten online Casino Bonus und Pokerr�ume im Internet vor.

- Play free bingo games and black out bingo.

- 220Marketing specializes in providing mortgage marketing for mortgage companies and managers.

- Take your time to tour our site and check out all the fun games we operate. In addition to the 20 online bingo rooms we operate, we also have online keno.

- TV Stands