Neil Degrasse Tyson Pluto Analysis

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This documentary is about the controvery of the classification of Pluto. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, embarked on a journey to revisit the history and seek classification of Pluto. Tyson first visted Walt Disney’s great nephew. “Walt was fascinated by space, space discoveries, it wasn’t an accident he named a character Pluto, it was fate.” (Nova) Then, he visited the Tombaugh family. In 1894, astronomer, Persible Lowell stumbled across a “planet x”, while trying to discover life on Mars. Completing Lowell’s quest, Clyde Tombaugh was a farmer who discovered Pluto without having attending college. In 2006, the IAU conference decided, “ planets must clear the neighborhood around
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