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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 everyone said till the soils. he built his own telescopes. he had a relationship with the universe that en...

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. we're 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 bet. always do. always here, that guy discovered pluto. >> walt disney named a dog after him. >> t...

It hasn't 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 it's a yes, you put a check there. are you big enough to be round? you've got eight planets. if you're little, then if you're 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, it's a beautiful fact of physics that above a certain size, the gravity forces your physical dimensions to take the shape of a sp...

Working together is a thing of beauty. ( inhales deeply ) you have to be in sync every step of the way. like the incredible scent of gain detergent... and fabric softener. ( inhales deeply ) the key... is staying focused. ahhh! magnifico! carlos. the incredible matching scents... of gain detergents and fabric softeners. sniff sniff hooray! love him or just like him very much, the man who officially kicked pluto out of the solar system will be right here next. he's dr. neil degrasse tyson.

American. and so that doesn't 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, mickey's dog that has the same tenure in the hearts and minds of americans. why? because it was first sketched the same...