Make Pluto Great Again: Restoring Pluto’s Planet Status by Executive Order

Pluto was a planet, is a planet, and should once again be recognized as a planet. This is not sentimentality masquerading as science. It is a correction long overdue for a demotion steeped in procedural absurdity and definitional incoherence. The International Astronomical Union’s 2006 decision to strip Pluto of planetary status did not reflect a robust…