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Article: How many planets?(Editorials)(Should there be eight, or 10, or maybe 23?)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Whoever it is who said there's nothing new under the sun wasn't paying attention to the field of astronomy. New things under, beyond and around the sun are being discovered all the time, throwing into disarray long-settled understandings of how the solar system is organized. Right now, Pluto is on the bubble - and it seems likely that the bubble will burst, leaving the solar system with only eight officially recognized planets.
Pluto's status is being discussed at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Prague. The discussion arises because of the recent discovery of an object bigger and more distant from the sun ...