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The Demise of Pluto
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet. Every science textbook I ever studied listed nine planets, with...
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I had written an earlier post – The Demise of Pluto – lamenting its reduction in status to that of dwarf planet or plutoid. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to its new...
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