City Manager Richard Brown introduced the resolution, which read in
part: `Size and distance are not necessarily relevant determining
factors in assessing the importance of planets in the universe. This
decertification [of Pluto] could have enormous implications relating
to the status of smaller communities such as New London.'
How many astronomers have paid attention to the important issue of the
status of New London in their efforts to determine whether Pluto meets
the criteria of a planet?
--
Ronald Florence