Podcaster: Paul M. Sutter
Title: Is Pluto a planet?
Organization: INFN Trieste and OSU CCAPP
Link : Twitter @PaulMattSutter, http://www.Facebook.com/PaulMattSutter, and http://www.askaspaceman.com
Description: Is Pluto a planet? Why do we care? Why did we ever call it a planet in the first place? How has our definition of “planet” changed over the millennia, and how might it change in the future? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.
Bio: Paul Sutter received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow. He then spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Next-Generation Cosmic Probes at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, and is currently an INFN Fellow in Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and a Visiting Scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. He is inexplicably drawn to positions with very long titles.
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