PETITION PROTESTING THE IAU PLANET DEFINITION
We, as planetary scientists and astronomers, do not agree with the IAU's
definition of a planet nor will we use it. A better definition is needed.
FIRST NAME LAST NAME INSTITUTION
Hal Weaver Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Ralph McNutt Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Andrew Cheng JHU/APL
Amy Lovell Agnes Scott College
Darren Baird UCLA
Christopher Russell UCLA
Elizabeth Jensen UCLA
Mark Sykes PSI
Michael Gaffey Space Studies, U. North Dakota
John Lambert The Boeing Company
Tony Farnham University of Maryland
David Rabinowitz Yale University
Curtis Cooper Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Alan Chamberlin Jet Propulsion Laboratory
H. Warren Moos Johns Hopkins University
Chris McKay NASA Ames
Eldar Noe Malin Space Science Systems
Scott Michael Indiana University
Jennifer Piatek University of Tennessee
Krista Soderlund UCLA
Sanjay Limaye University of Wisconsin
Kathy Rages SETI Institute
Erin Ryan University of Minnesota
Beatrice Mueller Planetary Science Institute
Barry Lutz Northern Arizona University
Stephen Maran American Astronomical Society
David Kuehn Pittsburg State University
Leslie Bleamaster Planetary Science Institute
Peter Bender Univ. of Colorado
Kenneth Mighell National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Larry Lebofsky U. of Arizona
Kem Cook Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Levy Jarnac Observatory
Horton Newsom Univ. of New Mexico
Kurt Retherford Southwest Research Institute
Wendee Wallach-Levy Jarnac Observatory
Nanette Vigil Jarnac Observatory
Francis Graham Kent State University
janet luhmann SSL, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Bryan Butler National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Harold Geller George Mason University
Will Grundy Lowell Observatory
James Dire Gardner-Webb University
Nicola Richmond Planetary Science Institute
Peter Thomas Cornell University
Howard Smith University of Virginia
Alan Stern SwRI
Vladimir Krasnopolsky CUA
Colleen Milbury UCLA
Britney Schmidt UCLA
Jennifer Benson University Of Toledo
Alan Howard University of Virginia
Tae-Soo Pyo Subaru Telescope
Wayne Pryor Central Arizona College
Tanya Tavenner New Mexico State University
steve howell NOAO
Robert Carlson JPL
Jason Soderblom Cornell University
MARK WYSOCKI CORNELL UNIVERSITY
William Rossow City College of New York
William McKinnon Washington University
Jody Wilson Boston University
Iain Reid STScI
Nadine Barlow Northern Arizona University
Mark B. Vincent MRO 2.4m, New Mexico Tech
Philip James Space Science Institute
Vishnu Reddy University of North Dakota
Denise Stephens Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence Wasserman Lowell Observatory
Colby Jurgenson Magdalena Ridge Observatory
Roger Knacke Penn State Erie
Darrell Strobel Johns Hopkins University
Steven Ostro JPL
Ronald Elsner NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Robert Marcialis LPL
Mark Showalter SETI Institute
Linda Spilker JPL
Larry Paxton Johns Hopkins University
William Jackson University of California
Theodor Kostiuk Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Kolvoord James Madison University
Glenn Orton JPL
Paul Strycker New Mexico State University
Nicholas Sperling The University of Toledo
Mark Everett Planetary Science Institute
D. Chris Benner College of William and Mary
Jim Elliot Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter Huebner Southwest research Inst.
Michael Mickelson DENISON UNIVERSITY
Giles Marion Desert Research Institute
James Ferris Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Institute
Henry Throop Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO
Larry Petro Space Telescope Science Institute
Chris Churchill New Mexico State University
Gordon Bjoraker NASA/GSFC
Robert Fritzius Shade Tree Physics
Daniel MacDonald JPL
Brendan Fisher JPL
Linda French Illinois Wesleyan University
Bernard Bates University of Puget Sound
Richard TreschFienberg Sky & Telescope
Mary Bourke Planetary Science Institute
Carol Neese Planetary Science Institute
Ed Smith STScI
Christopher Gelino Spitzer Science Center/IPAC
Richard Wagener Brookhaven National Laboratory
Truman Kohman Carnegie-Mellon University
John Stansberry Steward Obs., U. Arizona
Alex Storrs Towson Univ.
G. Leonard Tyler Stanford University
Brandon Lawton New Mexico State University
Mark Hammergren Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
Peregrine McGehee Los Alamos National Laboratory
Robert Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Marc Buie Lowell Observatory
Landon Noll Fremont Peak Observatory
Adam Burgasser MIT
Michael Kelley Georgia Southern University
Uwe Fink Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
David Crisp JPL/Caltech
H. Bradford Barber University of Arizona
Einstein Miller OCC, CU, MMCC
Robin Evans Gibbel Corporation
Kurt Anderson Apache Point Observatory and NM State University
Erik Asphaug University of California, Santa Cruz
William Newman UCLA
Jose Francisco Salgado Adler Planetarium
Stamatios Krimigis JHU/APL
Michael Mautner Virginia Commonwealth University
Simon Mitton University of Cambridge
Raul Baragiola University of Virginia
Michael Allison Goddard Inst for Space Studies
Cathy Olkin SwRI
Judith Young University of Massachusetts
Michael Kelley University of Minnesota
Meg Spohn University of Denver
Tashonia Blackwell Norfolk State University
Brian Warner Palmer Divide Observatory
Alison Bridger San Jose State University
Alanna Garay National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Henry Alwyn Wootten Natl. Radio Astronomy Observatory
M. L. Delitsky CSE
Ira Nolt Retired NASA
Jayant Murthy IIA
William Merline SwRI
Daryl Swade STScI
Amar Rao UCLA
Robert Novak Iona College
Joe Peterson Southwest Research Institute
Donald Jennings Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael Wolff Space Science Institute
Randy Gladstone SwRI
Jeffrey Moore NASA Ames Research Center
Fred Franklin Harvard-Smithsonian CFA
Kevin Stube University of Arizona
David Tholen University of Hawaii
Russ Walker MIRA
Eliot Young Southwest Research Institute
Michael Finch The University of Arizona
David Crown Planetary Science Institute
William Cassidy University of Pittsburgh
Joel Parker Southwest Research Institute
Noel Jackson University of Southern Queensland, Australia
David Portree Lowell Observatory
Jonathan Gradie BAE Systems NES Imaging & Surveillance
Philip Massey Lowell Observatory
Paul Grogger University of Colorado
Joseph Ajello JPL
Lou Weeks AAS Member
Galen Gisler University of Oslo
Thomas Stephens NASA GSFC
Jared Leisner UCLA
Gregory Hoppa Raytheon
Robert Barron Tel Aviv Uni.
Laurent Montesi Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Deidre Hunter Lowell Observatory
James Mueller JHU/APL
Michael Stevens Naval Research Laboratory
Scott Milster ATK Mission Research
Hoi Fung Chau University of Hong Kong
Knut Olsen National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Anthony Roman Space Telescope Science Institute
Catherine Johnson UCSD
Grace Wolf-Chase University of Chicago
Bernard Noeller Community College of Baltimore County
Ellen Howell Arecibo Observatory
Robert Reynolds University Of Arizona - LPL
Thomas Kehoe University of Florida
David Hinson Stanford University
Dan Moynihan Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Glenn Dantzler Settlemyre Planetarium
Thomas Hill Rice University
Justin Bartel Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Rodney Martin Wm. Brish Planetarium
Steven Russo Schenectady Museum Planetarium
Maurice Collins Amateur Astronomer
Douglas ReVelle Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Cooper NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Martha Leake Valdosta State University
JOHN BRANDT U. of New Mexico
Duncan Young University of Texas
Chuck See University of Arizona
Stephen Becker Los Alamos National Lab
Bonnie Buratti Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sally Oey University of Michigan
Laurence Trafton Univ. Texas at Austin
David Bartlett University of Colorado
Faith Vilas MMT Observatory
David Grinspoon Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Carolyn Shoemaker USGS
Robert Craddock Smithsonian Institution
Priscilla Cerroni IASF INAF Roma Italy
John Dragon Los Alamos National Laboratory
Charles Cowley Astron. Dept. U. of Michigan
Wayne Hayes University of California, Irvine
Nilton Renno University of Michigan
Amy Simon-Miller NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Louise Prockter JHU/APL
David Klassen Rowan Univeristy
Bradley Schaefer Louisiana State University
Ilana Dashevsky STScI
Lawrrence Sromovsky University of Wisconsin - Madison
Richard Schmude, Jr. Gordon College
David Weintraub Vanderbilt University
Barbara Carlson NASA/GISS
Gary Copeland Old Dominion Univsersity
Gerhard Neukum Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Yi-Jehng Kuan National Taiwan Normal University
Tom Van Flandern Meta Research
Edward Tedesco University of New Hampshire
John Richardson M.I.T.
Jon Jenkins SETI Institute
Dariusz Lis California Institute of Technology
Minho Choi Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
David Dunham Johns Hopkins Univ./Applied Physics Lab.
Michael Haken NASA/GSFC
Craig Fry Exploration Physics International, Inc.
Jean Chiar SETI Institute/NASA Ames
Clark Chapman Southwest Research Inst.
Jasmine Santana University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Laura Woodney California State Univ, San Bernardino
Fran Bagenal University of Colorado
Gregory Smith SRI International
Victoria Meadows IPAC/Caltech
Shane Byrne University of Arizona
Steven Lee Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Susan Postawko University of Oklahoma
Michael Summers George Mason University
Amy Donnelly Herkimer BOCES planetarium
Joseph VEVERKA Cornell
Herbert Beebe New Mexico State Univ (retired)
Niescja Turner Florida Institute of Technology
Bidushi Bhattacharya Spitzer Science Center, Caltech
Paul Helfenstein Cornell University
David H. Smith National Research Council
Howard Houben Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
Carrie Anderson New Mexico State University
Bernhard Schulz IPAC/Caltech
Scott Severson UCO/Lick Observatory
Carl Grillmair Spitzer Science Center
James Colbert Spitzer Science Center
Thomas Jarrett IPAC
Reta Beebe New Mexico State University
Oliver Hartmnann FU Berlin, Remote sensing of the earth and planets,
Geosciences
Melissa Nelson University of New Mexico
Patrick Ogle Spitzer Science Center
Larry Friesen University of Houston at Clear Lake
Jeffrey Bary University of Virginia
Roc Cutri IPAC/Caltech
John McGraw University of New Mexico
Paul Steffes Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul Romani NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
W. David Carrier, III Lunar Geotechnical Institute
Stephen Shawl University of Kansas
Regina Cody NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas Kelsall NASA/GSFC (ret.)
Stephen Baloga Proxemy Research
Todd Clancy Space Science Institute
Dennis Matson JPL
Nicole Rappaport JPL
Barbara Anthony-Twarog Univ. of Kansas
Bruce Twarog University of Kansas
Bob Molloy Spitzer Science Center/Caltech
Steve Bryson NASA Ames
Gilbert Esquerdo Planetary Science Institute
Paul Abell Planetary Science Institute
David Osip Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Kandis-Lea Jessup Southwest Research Institute
David Huestis SRI International
Ray Russell The Aersospace Corporation
Don Davis Planetary Science Institute
Jim Thieman NASA/GSFC
Samuel Dupree Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions
Amara Graps INAF-Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Sze-leung Cheung Ho Koon Astronomical Center Hong Kong
Stefan Schroeder Max-Planck-Institut fuer Sonnensystemforschung
Pablo Gutierrez-Marques MPS
Michael DiSanti NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Sebastian Walter FU Berlin
Andrew Potter National Solar Observatory
Irwin Shapiro Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Feng Tian NPP
Douglas Caldwell SETI Institute
Patricio Rojo Universidad de Chile, Astronomy Department