http://blog.schauderhaft.de/2009/04/19/mental-training-part-three/ Softwaredevelopment, Projectmanagement, Qualitymanagement and all things "schauderhaft" Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.schauderhaft.de/2009/04/19/mental-training-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Laurel Kornfeld Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:41:07 +0000 http://blog.schauderhaft.de/2009/04/19/mental-training-part-three/#comment-173 Please do not blindly accept the controversial demotion of Pluto, which was done by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists, and was rejected by hundreds of professional astronomers in a petition led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA's New Horizons misson to Pluto. Stern and like-minded scientists support a broader planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star. The spherical part is important because it means an object is large enough to have been pulled into a round shape by its own gravity. This is a characteristic of planets, not of shapeless asteroids. The view that Pluto is a "former planet" is only one interpretation of reality in an ongoing debate, not fact, as some think it is. Please do not blindly accept the controversial demotion of Pluto, which was done by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists, and was rejected by hundreds of professional astronomers in a petition led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons misson to Pluto. Stern and like-minded scientists support a broader planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star. The spherical part is important because it means an object is large enough to have been pulled into a round shape by its own gravity. This is a characteristic of planets, not of shapeless asteroids. The view that Pluto is a “former planet” is only one interpretation of reality in an ongoing debate, not fact, as some think it is.

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