Debating Pluto's Planethood with Alan Stern

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Will Neil take back what he said about Pluto? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore planets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt with planetary scientist and principal investigator for the New Horizons Mission, Alan Stern.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, we're reopening old wounds regarding the status of Pluto.
0:09.0	I've got with me in my office Alan Stern, Mr Pluto himself, and we spend the whole time talking
0:14.8	about that little bugger in the outer solar system.
0:17.7	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:27.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:31.0	This is Star Talk.
0:34.0	Neil Degrass Tyson here, you're a personal
0:36.0	and asked or physicist.
0:38.0	Today we're going to do Cosmic Quarries.
0:40.0	And we got Chuck for this, right?
0:42.0	Oh, definitely. But this is a very special cosmic
0:44.6	aquarium. It is. Oh, this hits deep. Yes, it does. This, this is the
0:49.8	Montecue and Capulets. This is the west side story of dwarf planets.
0:57.0	We got with me my friend and colleague Alan Stern
1:03.0	Alan welcome back to give me give me some love here oh man
1:08.1	Alan welcome back to the crib here we're here at my office at the American Museum of Natural History
1:14.8	and you're one of the worlds, I'm just saying, I'm not gonna say one of,
1:19.0	I'm gonna say the world's expert on Pluto.
1:21.3	Can I say that?
1:24.0	Wow.
1:25.0	You just did. Yeah.
1:27.0	The man, but, but let's hold Pluto just for a minute.
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