Stephen Colbert Grills Neil DeGrasse Tyson Over Pluto's Plan

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Future "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert celebrated NASA’s release of the first detailed photos of Pluto on Tuesday by taking astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to task for the famed scientist's vocal dislike of the dwarf planet.





In the promo video for Colbert's upcoming CBS show, deGrasse Tyson told the comedian that Pluto is “awesome, minus 10 percent.”



NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto on Tuesday and sent the most detailed pictures of the last unseen planet in the solar system. The new “Late Show” host was incredibly disappointed by the scientist’s lack of enthusiasm for Pluto.



“It would be totally awesome if it was a bigger place,” deGrasse Tyson said.



But the history of the mission wasn’t lost on deGrasse Tyson.



“It’s especially beautiful and especially exciting because no one has seen this before yesterday,” he said.



Watch the entire exchange here:

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Off point, is Pluto a planet now? Or still a dwarf planet? Or other? I feel like I need to know before my kid is in school.

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Jul 16, 2015 20:42:16 GMT -5 @hannymaren said:

Off point, is Pluto a planet now? Or still a dwarf planet? Or other? I feel like I need to know before my kid is in school.

Dwarf planet.

I think our kids will learn the eight planets, but also learn the names of the more famous dwarf plants, Ceres being the other obvious example. 

On point...I fucking loved the video. Colbert and NGT are some of my favorite people and watching he two of them basically spar intellectually is hilarious.