Hate Mail from Third Graders
John's poll
November 18, 2004
On January 22, 2001, nearly a year after the exhibit opened, the New York Times ran a front-page story headlined: "Pluto's Not a Planet? Only in New York." An all-out media frenzy ensued, and for several years thereafter, Neil's in-box overflowed with e-mail from upset Plutophiles. Six-year-old John Glidden even took it upon himself to conduct a poll.