A Study of the Path of a Small Solar System Body; Or, The Politics of Rejection

(2007-2008)

A read-along performance about the reclassification of Pluto from planet to "dwarf planet" and the political nature of classification systems. Everyone turned the page when the bell rang.

Karinne Keithley Syers was Pluto. Emily Hricko, Goldie Peacock, and Jessamyn Schmidt were Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.

Subjects:

Cataloging

Classification

Developed countries

Developing countries

Discrimination

Group of Eight (Organization)

International Astronomical Union

Planets

Pluto

Taxonomists