In 1987 my brother, Kent, and I
went to California to visit our brother, Kim. We all traveled to Big
Bear Mountain to a telescope making convention, where your average Joe
can display his or her home-made telescope. It was a fun time of
camping in the mountains and seeing all of the different types of
telescopes. So anyway, the guest on Saturday was Clyde Tombaugh, the
discoverer of the planet Pluto. So this is my only claim to fame,
meeting Clyde Tombaugh and getting his autograph which is below. (Full disclosure, I also met Fats Domino and got his autograph back in the 70's) So, why after all of these years is Pluto being
kicked out of our solar system? Mr. Tombaugh would turn over in
his grave if he knew this was happening. After all he did in his
lifetime to further education in science this is the thanks he gets.
Ok, the reason the scientists are giving for this decision is because
using current technology there could be as many as 300 other planets in
our galaxy equal to Pluto discovered near us well. (Update 2024..Pluto's orbit is more eliptical than our other planets and is more in the asteroid belt orbit. ) I guess it's all in the details.
The thing I remember
the most about the convention was that next to our camping spot was a
concession booth and they played the sound track from the" Wizard of Oz",
constantly, they sang every word and did the different voices , the
munchkins, the lion, Dorothy, it was a scream....I remember sitting on
the tailgate of my brother's red toyota pickup and drinking beer and
eating cookies and laughing our asses off at these crazy people. Now
that I have actually done the concession thing I can see how they got
like
that!!!
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