Fight for Pluto !, A Campaign to Reverse the Unjust Demotion Options

[mars loon]

Dear Friends,

Today I am extremely dissapointed that the Pluto Demoters have triumphed.

I respect their opinion, but disagree with it.

I strongly agree with Alan Stern's statement calling it "absurd" that only 424 astronomers were allowed to vote, out of some 10,000 professional astronomers around the globe.

This tiny group is clearly not at all representative by mathematics alone.

I believe we should formulate a plan to overturn this unjust decision and return Pluto to full planetary status, and as the first member of a third catagory of planets, Xena being number two. Thus a total of 10 Planets in our Solar System

Please respond if you agree that Pluto should be restored as a planet.

ken

Ken Kremer
Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton
Program Chairman

[Greg Hullender]

volcanopele: Aren't you worried that it supports the idea that Science is "proven wrong" if it ever changes its mind about anything? This is a favorite argument of fundamentalist Christians opposed to evolution. Ability to change should be presented as a strength of science, not a weakness -- even if you happen to disagree with this particular change.

Or at least, that's how *I* see it. :-)