NASA embarrassment: Agency chief calls for major U-turn on Pluto as planet debate rages

Speaking at the event he was dismissive of the planet’s current status “Just so you know, in my view, Pluto is a planet,

“You can write that the NASA Administrator declared Pluto a planet once again. I’m sticking by that, it’s the way I learnt it, and I’m committed to it.”

The news comes as NASA channels funding into a research project determining the feasibility of another orbiter Mission to the dwarf planet.

In a statement, the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonia, Texas, said it was working on the study.

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