NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.

"I am very much in the camp of 'Make Pluto A Planet Again'," Isaacman told the members of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.

"I would say we are doing some papers right now on a position that we would love to escalate through the scientific community to revisit this discussion and ensure that Clyde Tombaugh gets the credit he received once and rightfully deserves to receive again."

Isaacman was responding to US Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS), the chair, who brought up the subject.

Clyde Tombaugh, a US astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930. Pluto was classified as a planet until 2006 ...