To celebrate the 94th anniversary of Plutos discovery, we sat down with Brown and Philip Metzger, retired planetary physicist at NASAs Kennedy Space Center (and current associate scientist at the University of Central Florida), to get some answers. Are Brown and likeminded people correct in reduciPHILIP METZGER: We would say that there are a lot of dwarf planets and that these dwarf planets are actual planets in the Kuiper Belt. But the thing is, we're not really arguing for Pluto to be reinstated because we think that the vote to downgrade it was irrelevant. The IAU didn't have a right to d
This was something that Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist, had been interested in for a while. Metzger was the cofounder of Swamp Works, a kind of tech incubator at NASA's Kennedy Space Center that creates practical solutions to the challenges of working and living in places beyond Earth. As par
"I was contacted by some of the companies that were competing for the Google Lunar X Prize," recalls Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist now at the University of Central Florida. At the time, Metzger was at NASA studying the blast effects from the Apollo lunar landings, and he and his colleagues f
Date: Feb 21, 2019
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Is Pluto a Planet? New Paper Adds to Decade-Long Debate
"We now have a list of well over 100 recent examples of planetary scientists using the word planet in a way that violates the IAU definition, but they are doing it because it's functionally useful," lead author Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, said i