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NASA Chief Picks Sides in Emotional Pluto Debate

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine spoke to reporters at an aerospace engineering lab in Boulder, Colorado

Is Pluto a planet, as generations of schoolchildren learned? Or is it really a dwarf planet, as astronomyโ€™s official governing body has determined?

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine says itโ€™s the former.

โ€œJust so you know, in my view Pluto is a planet,โ€ he told reporters Aug. 23 while touring an aerospace engineering lab in Boulder, Colorado. โ€œItโ€™s the way I learned it and Iโ€™m committed to it.โ€

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