Mike Brown: The Man Who Killed Pluto

 In Mike Brown’s book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, it details what he was thinking about regarding Pluto in the months leading up to the planet’s reclassification as a dwarf planet, and his thoughts were documented in the book. Essentially, it all started when he discovered a new planet dubbed Xena, which was far larger in size than Pluto. As a result, it sparked a spirited discussion about how new bodies should be classified in astronomy. Moreover, while…