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Posted by <tapwater on September 5, 2006, 8:15 am
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> http://pleasesavepluto.org/pluto/petition-to-iau/
>
> Petition for IMMEDIATE REVERSAL of decision to demote Pluto to “Dwarf
> Planet” by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
>
> 451 Signatures (View Signatures) Sign Petition Bookmark on del.icio.us
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> ATTENTION:
>
> * Ron Ekers (outgoing IAU President)
> * Catherine Cesarsky (incoming IAU President, Member of the Planet
> Definition Committee)
> * Jan Palous (Chair of the National Organising Committee)
> * Richard Binzel (Member of the Planet Definition Committee)
> * Karel van der Hucht (incoming Secretary General)
>
> Some things are immutable and we thought that there will always be four
> seasons, seven Dwarfs, four Beatles, three Stooges and nine planets (see
> articles, here and here).
>
> We, the signatories herein, comprising of concerned citizens of the
> world strongly object to the decision and seek the IMMEDIATE REVERSAL of
> the Result of the IAU Resolution votes to demote Pluto from a planet to
> a ‘dwarf planet’. Furthermore, experts like University of Tennessee
> Physics Professor Bill Blass (see WBIR.com article) and NASA’s head of
> New Horizons mission to Pluto, Dr Alan Stern, ridicules the definition
> and states that it would have never passed ‘peer review’ (see BBC
article).
>
> We trust that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will take into
> account the feedback of the concerned citizens and experts seriously
> enough to consider the reversal of their decision.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Concerned citizens (see the list of signatories and their own comments)
> 451 Signatures Please sign petition
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