Pluto
August 25th, 2006

Pluto

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  1. Pluto: It’s Still Out There | Vintage Space

    […] To briefly recap (and greatly simplify): In 2005, Caltech astronomer Mike Brown discovered a celestial body, Eris, orbiting much further away from the sun than Pluto; initial calculations of its apparent brightness suggested it is actually bigger than Pluto. Brown excitedly thought might have discovered a new planet—the first discovered since Pluto in 1930—but the decision on this was in the hands of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a body of scientists that has been classifying and naming solar bodies for decades. (Pluto from Saturday Cartoons by Mike Stivers.) […]

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  3. Hosea Horseford

    Sorry for oftopic, but I was unable to view this article via Opera. Switched to Firefox and everything was ok. You might want to check it.

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