by: Alex Mahadevan Digital Editor
YourObserver.com
Neil deGrasse Tyson made one thing perfectly clear while speaking to a packed house at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Monday: Pluto is still not a planet. Get over it.
“Just because I was an accessory in the demotion of Pluto, doesn’t mean I don’t love Pluto,” Tyson said at the latest installment of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series. The astrophysicist discussed the latest feats mankind has accomplished in space travel — including NASA’s New Horizons mission to study the icy dwarf planet.
Tyson made another thing clear during his lecture, which he dissected during a roundtable discussion before the talk: the United States is falling behind in space exploration and politicians should take note.
