Ten-year-old girl asked NASA chief to classify Pluto as a planet again. He responded
Ten-year-old girl Kaela, on her social media page, appealed to NASA chief Jared Isaacman with a request to officially recognize Pluto as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
Pluto in a 2015 image taken by the "New Horizons" automatic interplanetary station. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
According to The Times of India, the girl listed several reasons in her appeal why this should be done:
"It is part of our Solar System and was once a planet; it is a dwarf planet and deserves to be a real planet; it could make many people happy," Kaela wrote.
Repeating her request, she added:
"Perhaps it's not your choice, but if it is, please... do it... I would be very, very happy."
"Kaela, we are looking into this," replied the NASA chief.
As is known, Pluto held the status of the ninth planet of the Solar System since its discovery in 1930. However, in 2006, it was classified as a dwarf planet and removed from the official list of Solar System planets.