A Man, A Planet, A Tenal: Panama!

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2009

⏱️ 53 minutes

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While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, we’ve let one of our own planets slip away! Find out why Pluto’s demotion to dwarf status created a public uproar as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reads us his hate mail. From third-graders! Also, how we might find Earth-like planets… the possibility of life on Saturn’s moon Titan… and TED Prize winner Jill Tarter’s vision for finding E.T. And, the man who made it all possible: 400 years of Galileo and the telescope. Part of our series for the International Year of Astronomy. Guests Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist, Head of the Hayden Planetarium, and author of The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet Alan Stern - Planetary Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, lead investigator on NASA’s New Horizons Mission Jeffrey Van Cleve - Astronomer at the Kepler Mission Science Office Carolyn Porco - Planetary scientist and Lead for NASA’s Cassini Mission Jill Tarter - Director of SETI Research at the SETI Institute Andy Fraknoi - Astronomer at Foothill College and author of Voyages Through the Universe (with CD-ROM, Virtual Astronomy Labs, and InfoTrac ) Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.0	It's an evening, moonlight shines on a balcony, a figure steps out.
1:29.8	Oh, Pluto, Pluto, wherefore art thou Pluto?
1:33.8	Deny thy I-A-U and refuse their name.
1:36.7	Thou wilt not a dwarf planet B, keep thy name,
1:40.5	and I'll no longer be a caplutuit.
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