Bigs Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.

— Alan Stern

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark…

— Alan Stern

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto’s size got smaller and smaller.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

— Alan Stern

Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only…

— Alan Stern

Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is the new Mars.

— Alan Stern

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

— Mike Brown

What the hell happened to Pluto?!

— Jay Asher