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so you're largely credited with killing Pluto as a as a plan I was an accessory I mean I well well okay so but I drove the getaway car but I didn't commit the crime well so there's a there's a there's a book written by a guy named Mike Brown it's a good friend card how I killed Pluto and why it had it come in is there a beef in this in the science community about who was responsible for the death of Pluto I mean I got blamed for killing Pluto but I didn't kill Bluto but he took the credit he so therefore all right so he not only killed Pluto he admitted it so so get off my back right you're right have you got the gun the smoking gun and the person who pulled the trigger and all I did was drive the getaway car so in the year 2000 we rebuilt the Hayden Planetarium into a whole facility and we said well we want a future proof it what is the trend line what are the trend lines in scientific research so that when we cut metal it'll have some shelf life for it without having to redo it every six months we notice that more icy bodies were being discovered in the outer solar system who look more like Pluto than either Pluto or they look like any other planet that's an awesome sentence by the way you follow that sentence meaning so so what anytime that happens in science you say there's a category just waiting to be named a new a new bin of identity just asking for it and so Pluto and these other icy bodies are part of the Kuiper belt of comets Kuiper was a guy who predicted that this belt of frozen objects would exist beyond Neptune sure enough there they are course and Pluto was the first among them and we just grandfathered it in his planet but it's really puny it is it is much smaller than our moon half of its volume is a small I imagine Pluto as being like you know could fit like somewhere on the stage right over there how small is Pluto okay I'll tell you if if Neptune that's that don't use Neptune go with like a basketball compared to a basketball no no you don't know where I'm gonna land that's true so how will you not tell me not to go why does if it's a reference point I'm just saying okay so if - were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass yes of course so now how big is Pluto compared to that so this Chevy Impala parked at curbside Pluto would be not like a Mini Cooper no it would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb all right but compared to the moon the moon the moon is I forgot the exact number it's like eight times the mass of Pluto our moon where can we put Pluto in the world can we put it down somewhere Oh Pluto would fit between like here and and Chicago okay so that big did I just say that