The name of this article is “A Death in the Solar System”. The author of this article is Neil deGrasse Tyson. This article was found online at http://www.discover.com. This article is about the former ninth planet Pluto. The article explains that the “General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union” voted that Pluto is a dwarf planet. This article also explains why Pluto is just now being called a Dwarf planet and history of the former and its founder.

Before the guidelines for a planet were just that it had to be an object that wandered among the stars orbited the sun. Pluto’s “planet hood” started to become a little iffy when several objects that are the size of Pluto and bigger. The term “planet” came from the Greeks and all it meant was “wanderer”; it was used in reference to the objects that moved in the sky. The most common objects noted by the Greeks were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon.

In 1992 the University of Hawaii’s David Jewitt and MIT’s Jane Luu started to detect many frozen objects (including Pluto) that were on the edge of Solar System or, pass Neptune. This group of objects is called the Kuiper Belt; it’s named after the Dutch-American astronomer Gerald Kuiper. Another thing that made controversy was the asteroid Belt. The asteroid belt was a big controversy because it had a lot of small objects that could be called dwarf planets.

This article is important because it can change the teaching curriculum for everywhere. This article is also important because it and many other articles of its kind. Someone might agree with this article because they think that Pluto shouldn’t be a planet if there are objects out there that are much bigger then Pluto that are not planets. Also, someone might believe that Pluto also shouldn’t be a planet if Pluto being a planet means that several other objects would have to also become planets. Lastly, if Pluto did become a planet then all of the new planets would become curriculum that all kids would have learn that would be extra knowledge that would have to be taught so, someone probably think that it would be much, much better that Pluto just became a Dwarf planet.