Neil Degrasse Tyson: Analysis

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Neil deGrasse Tyson also known as one of America's Astronomers. Neil had many accomplishments but one of his biggest accomplishments was when he took part of a $210 million project that was completed in 2000. This project offered the visitors a new revolutionary look at astronomy. Tyson had made a very controversial decision to remove Pluto from the display of planets. He believed that Pluto should be reclassified, and it should be considered a dwarf planet in the sense that it was similar objects were being discovered in the same region of space. The Tysons decision provoked many strong responses from visitors. The visitors insisted that Pluto had returned.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union followed Tyson's lead and Pluto was officially labeled as a dwarf planet. Currently The Solar System only eight planets. To this day Tyson is considered to be the man who “killed” Pluto. In 2014, Tyson was the host and was the executive editor of a hit 13-episode television series entitled COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey. Tyson is also is till this day apart of the tv show star talk that is on air every monday since April 20,2015.

Born in Manhattan Neil deGrasse Tyson and his two siblings grew up in the Bronx.He was born on October 5, 1958, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Son of Cyril deGrasse Tyson a sociologist
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How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us?-Neil deGrasse Tyson No not really nothing but data to be able to make predictions and or conclusions.Neil deGrasse Tyson took a trip to the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History at the age of nine and that was where & when he got his first look at the wonders of stars . At the moment no because this scientist writes and talks about the wonders of astronomy in books and also in the tv shows he has hosted and been a part

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