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Astronomycast, episode 382, degenerate manner.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos. We're going to help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of university and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Ebridsville, and the director of Cosmic question.

Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

I'm doing great, so we are now two episodes away from hiatus.

Something like that.

Yeah, so there will be this episode, this is the penultimate episode.

And the time that we're spending on hiatus is actually going to be spent doing lots of awesome things that you can follow along with online.

Fraser is continuing his coverage of New Horizons over at university today, and with his weekly video series, I'm doing the same thing over a cosmic quest.

And I'm also covering series, because I'm team series, so expect lots of asteroid coverage coming up in the next month.

And in August, I'll be over at the International Astronomical Union meeting in Hawaii, basically following all of the, well, politics of our field as we work to define and refine our understanding of the universe.

And how we name things, because this is apparently a thing to argue over.

Yep, you're going to decide that, but Pluto, the vote for Pluto is not back on the block this time.

No, it's not.

No, no, Pluto, there's a lot of rumors going around that somehow Pluto is going to get redefined. No, that is not going to happen.

No, it's really not anyone who is making a claim that Pluto is a planet.

One thing to ask yourself is, have they written a book or are they in a position to monetarily benefit from making a big deal about how Pluto should be a planet?

Because that seems to be what it's often tied to.

Because if you're just interested in the science, it really doesn't matter.

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