While you slept last…
Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at
6:10 pm
While you slept last night, the solar system lost a planet.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) – Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is – and isn’t – a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Will Mickey Mouse’s dog have to be renamed “Neptune”?
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