Planet Pluto at 89: Biased IAU Documents Reveal Depth of Denial

Laurel Kornfeld
8 min readMar 1, 2019

February 18, 2019, marked the 89th anniversary of Pluto’s amazing discovery by 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on February 18, 1930.

With this year’s New Year’s flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, Tombaugh, whose ashes are onboard the New Horizons spacecraft, became the only person to have ever journeyed…

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Laurel Kornfeld

I am a freelance writer, actress, amateur astronomer, and progressive activist as well as a strong advocate of Pluto's planet status.