I'm doing a report and I need to no how to email them.I'm doing a report on is Pluto Really A Planet.I've been on the sight ,but I don't know how to email them.
without all the in depth detail as above you can check out this page to contact Nasa and once you do they can direct you to the proper poeple, and good luck
That is not really a question for NASA, although there are people there who can answer that question. Try to Google "NASA Ask a scientist astronomer" and follow some of the links.
The main difficulty with your question is that the decision to NOT call Pluto a planet was nonsensical. It has no scientific value, whatsoever, and came on the eve of a science revolution. The number of extra-solar planets grows almost weekly and with several new telescopes and space missions coming up we will have to revise out ideas about planetary systems from the ground up. Pluto will not be our main problem candidate. Not at all.
The New Horizons team, by the way, has decided to ignore the "new" classification and keeps calling Pluto a planet. And who would know more about Pluto than the people who can actually go there and visit?
To me Pluto will also stay a planet. While I have a PhD in high energy physics (which is far better than rocket science :-) ), I can not understand for the life of me what the world has gained form making an arbitrary distinction between a rock slightly smaller and a rock slightly larger. One orbit or another. One size moon or another. It just does not make sense. Except maybe to an accountant. But we should not let the bean counters count the cosmos. What do you think?
NASA really wasn't involved in the decision to demote Pluto as a planet. It was made by a group of international astronomers which were members of the the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The decision was made during a special meeting of the IAU in August. Please see the link below for the official "new" definition of a planet, and the statement that Pluto is now a dwarf planet.
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without all the in depth detail as above you can check out this page to contact Nasa and once you do they can direct you to the proper poeple, and good luck
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/about/contact_us.ht...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie...
And here is ask Nasa
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ask+nasa&btnG...
That is not really a question for NASA, although there are people there who can answer that question. Try to Google "NASA Ask a scientist astronomer" and follow some of the links.
The main difficulty with your question is that the decision to NOT call Pluto a planet was nonsensical. It has no scientific value, whatsoever, and came on the eve of a science revolution. The number of extra-solar planets grows almost weekly and with several new telescopes and space missions coming up we will have to revise out ideas about planetary systems from the ground up. Pluto will not be our main problem candidate. Not at all.
The New Horizons team, by the way, has decided to ignore the "new" classification and keeps calling Pluto a planet. And who would know more about Pluto than the people who can actually go there and visit?
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
To me Pluto will also stay a planet. While I have a PhD in high energy physics (which is far better than rocket science :-) ), I can not understand for the life of me what the world has gained form making an arbitrary distinction between a rock slightly smaller and a rock slightly larger. One orbit or another. One size moon or another. It just does not make sense. Except maybe to an accountant. But we should not let the bean counters count the cosmos. What do you think?
NASA really wasn't involved in the decision to demote Pluto as a planet. It was made by a group of international astronomers which were members of the the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The decision was made during a special meeting of the IAU in August. Please see the link below for the official "new" definition of a planet, and the statement that Pluto is now a dwarf planet.