Mike Brown: The Man Who Killed Pluto

The book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming details what was going in the astronomer’s mind, Mike Brown, in the run-up to Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet. Basically, it all began when he found a new planet named Xena and it was bigger in size than Pluto. Consequently, it stirred up a whole debate over how astronomy ranks new bodies. And while this doesn’t affect astrologers so much, it certainly gives fodder to skeptics over…