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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda cover image

Mike Brown and Millie Dresselhaus: Exploring the very big and the very small

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Pluto Is Not a Planet

The planets in our solar system are the big, gravitationally dominant bodies. Everything else just is only where it is because a planet put it there. If you removed pluto, if you removed aris, moved him around a little bit, doesn't'it really ange the solar system very much. It's kind of wonderful at once you discovered aris and sadna ad, you didn't say, well, ok, let's say that pluto is a plantit i got two more for you. Andi: I'm so much happier that now the solar system, when we describe it, even when we description it to school kids,. We're describing it as it

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