A bunch of kids in third grade took exception to the decision to withdraw Pluto’s planetary status. So they did what people taking exception have done for generations. They wrote complaint letters. To the astronomer responsible. The curator of the New York planetarium.
There are more here.
Including this rather conciliatory missive.
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These kids are right; Pluto is still a planet, and significantly, Dr. Tyson, who is not responsible for the demotion (that was four percent of the IAU) himself now admits the status of Pluto is still an open debate. Only four percent of the IAU voted on this, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers in a formal petition led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.