Ep. 613: Pluto's Demotion: 15 Years Later

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Astronomy Cast - Ep. 613: Pluto's Demotion: 15 Years Later by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay It's been 15 years since Pluto was kicked out of the planet club. It also happens to be the topic of our very first episode of Astronomy Cast more than 600 episodes ago. Are there any updates? Does Pluto have a chance of regaining planethood again?

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0:00.0	Oh
0:30.0	That's
0:40.1	I'm
0:45.4	Hey
0:48.4	constitute
0:50.9	friend
0:53.3	accelerates
0:55.1	wise
0:57.0	racial
0:59.1	to journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know but
1:02.8	how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Cain, publisher of University and with me as always
1:07.2	is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director
1:12.8	of Cosmic Quest. Hey Pamela, how you doing? I'm doing well. I can't believe that the
1:18.7	15th anniversary of Pluto's emotion means we've been doing this for 15 years.
1:24.4	That's right. Very first episode was the week after that event. Now you've just stolen
1:29.8	my introduction. But that's fine. That's fine. It's a little different. Yeah, 15 years.
1:36.3	That's amazing. 613 episodes. Man, like my children were born just before we started
1:49.2	doing the show and now they've they're all moved out of the house. Yeah, it's wild.
1:56.9	And the technological revolutions that we've watched, we we started out talking together
2:02.0	on Skype and recording locally. We went to Google Hangouts. We've jumped to Slack to
2:07.7	Discord to Twitch. We're bringing you a whole new layout today. Yes. It only took us
2:16.2	half an hour to get all of the technology to finally settle down and serve our bidding.
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