Nasa chief wants to ‘Make Pluto Great Again’

Pluto is not a planet; it’s a ‘dwarf planet’ (Picture: Getty Images/Science Photo Libra)

About 20 years ago, leading astronomers decided that Pluto was too small to be a planet, undoubtedly giving it a Napoleonic complex.

But Nasa’s top official came out with a new rallying cry on Tuesday: Make Pluto Great Again.

Well, kind of. The US space agency’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, told a Senate committee that he wants lil Pluto to be reclassified as a planet.

He added: ‘We are doing some papers right now on, I think, a position t...