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Article: Bye-bye Pluto!(WR NEWS)
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- Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2006
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Astronomers recently kicked Pluto out of the family of planets. Astronomers are scientist who study the universe beyond Earth.
What is a planet? Scientists finally decided on a definition. They said a planet must be almost round and must orbit the sun in its own path. Pluto's orbit crossed Neptune's path, so scientists named Pluto a dwarf planet. That is the name they gave to a new group of small objects in ...
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Article: Pluto demoted to 'dwarf planet'
University Wire;
August 28, 2006 ;
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... ... unanimously to demote Pluto to "dwarf planet" status, citing its ... bodies closely resembling Pluto, has caused scientists ... around its orbit. While Pluto meets the first two ... eight planets and one dwarf planet. "This is part of ...
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