Category: Pluto
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The Pluto Controversy
Who ever thought that the International Astronomical Union voting to take away the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_sc/planet_mutiny">status of Pluto as a planet</a> would create such controversy. Some people are very upset by it. I saw a cartoon right after it happened that poked fun at it but I didn't think that it would come true.<br />n<br />n<center><a…
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Planet, Moon, Whatever
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500330.html" title="Free Registration Required">Pluto's New Place in Space Could Be as a 'Pluton'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hoping to end the agonizing over whether Pluto is really a planet, an international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition that would save the tiny body's place in the sun's family.<br />n<br />nUnder the long-awaited proposal,…