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Pluto loses its status as a planet

September 1, 2006


Latest news about Science and Nature.
Courtesty by a friend of mine, Aldred Jay Donayre. That’s why i searched it over the internet and here’s what i’ve got from BBC News.

Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category.

The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as the other planets. The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) decision means textbooks will now have to describe a Solar System with just eight major planetary bodies.

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