Thursday March 29th 2007
Filed Under LeadDog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2007
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LeadDog releases Vector Maps for the Planet formerly known as Pluto
ANCHORAGE, AK. April 1 2007 - LeadDog Consulting, LLC today announced the release of geographic databases of terrain for the planet formerly known as Pluto and now referred to as 134340 Pluto. The recent formal definition of the term “planet” by the International Astronomical Union excluded Pluto from its comfortable 9th planet place in our Solar System and relegated it to a category known as “dwarf planets.”
Marc Bourdon, GIS manager at LeadDog, initially proposed the mapping project when he heard of 134340’s merciless demotion. Bourdon is originally from
New Mexico, where the state’s House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring that Pluto will always be considered a planet while overhead of the state, with March 13th being known as “Pluto Planet Day.” After completing the project Bourdon said, “it was hard not to champion the little guy after all that he’s been through.”
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