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83: "Pluto" with Marcos Huerta

Jul 31, 20171 hrEp 83Transcript available on Metacast
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Episode description

When is a planet not a planet? When it gets downgraded after 75 years, apparently. But was Pluto’s fate a mistake by the IAU, or an example of science in action? Marcos Huerta joins Antony to talk Kuiper belt objects, the New Horizons probe, and arbitrary astronomical definitions.

Antony Johnston with Marcos Huerta.