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They got something cooking in the back. no, but they were genuinely nice. and i think they appreciated that there was this attention given to clyde tombaugh. forget pluto. the fact is i came to learn of him, learn about him as an american hero. he was a farm boy from streiter, illinois. some guy in the barbershop, he has a mural of him down main street. there is a stained glass window in a church in new mexico that has his life on it. and he came out of a farm. and he was looking up while everyo...

80 years ago, he made his own telescopes on the family farm. in the pluto files dr. tyson goes to a barbershop in the hometown of dr. tombaugh in streeter, illinois and finds out what he means to the town today. were very proud of. very proud of him, what he did. >> and so you learned about him in high school? in elementary school? >> third grade, maybe. so his name comes up. and you learn he is a local guy. >> a streiter boy makes good. in third grade, wow. >> so you feel some pride? >> oh, you...

It hasnt cleared that operator. there is much more mass of other stuff out there than pluto itself. in all the other eight, they basically cleared their orbit. definition of planet have, you cleared your orbit? if its a yes, you put a check there. are you big enough to be round? youve got eight planets. if youre little, then if youre rocky, the rocks define what shape you are. so you could be craggy, you could look like a idaho potato. but above a certain size, its a beautiful fact of physics th...

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American. and so that doesnt explain why i had this emotional feeling. >> exactly. so in my sort of casual statistics, about 10% of americans who felt strongly about pluto knew that an american had discovered it. so the source had to be some other -- had to be some other force acting on these emotions. >> do you know what it is? >> well, not initially. i mean, i scratched my head, and i looked around. i sniffed around. and i said wait a minute, there is this dog we all know, mickeys dog that has...

Tysons new pbs nova documentary "the pluto files." dr. tyson is the guy who killed pluto. that is, it was dr. tyson and his team at the hayden planetarium at new york city who decided ten years ago to not call pluto a planet anymore and instead classify it as part of a distant asteroid belt. instead of remembering the planets by memorizing my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas mercury veinous earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune pluto. you instead have to memorize my very excel...

Streiter, illinois. thank you for being here. >> happy to be here. >> i want to start with the basics. what is a planet? [ laughter ] is there is an agreed upon definition for what a planet is? >> at this moment there is a voted upon definition that doesnt have full agreement by the entire community. but planet is big enough to be round. >> okay. >> and strong enough, if you will, to have completely -- almost completely cleared its orbit of other debris that could change its mass over time. so i...

But we think oh, its the puny guy. were americans. we like the underguy. >> thats okay too. if there is someone who is not favored to win a contest and they win you cheer them even harder and youre rooting for them. pluto was certainly the underdog, the puniest of the planets. now in its new zone, its the largest of the icy bodies. its the king of the comets. i think its happier there. its totally happier there. >> that was the exact same construction used to make the nerd guy cool in "16 candle...

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