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Article: Poor Pluto not even largest dwarf planet
Xinhua News Agency;  June 15, 2007 ;     363 words ...Poor Pluto not even largest dwarf planet WASHINGTON, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The dwarf planet Pluto, formerly known as planet ... largest, most massive known dwarf planet. Eris, which got Pluto demoted from planet status ...

Article: Mission to Pluto: a spacecraft journeys toward the new ...
WR News, Edition 4 (including Science Spin);  October 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... you name? Why might Pluto no longer be classified ... scientist who studies space dwarf planet: a distinct class of ... objects that includes Pluto, Ceres, and "Xena ... of the solar system. Pluto's downgraded title ... learning more about the dwarf planet. "We will continue ...

Article: Pluto demoted to 'dwarf planet'
University Wire;  August 28, 2006 ;     586 words ... ... 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 ...

Article: PLUTO GETS CUT DOWN TO SIZE SCIENTISTS DEEM IT A ...
The Boston Globe;  August 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Poor Pluto. It has always been the underdog ... International Astronomical Union, Pluto is no longer even a planet. Instead, it is a "dwarf planet," lumped in with Ceres located ... wrangling over the status of Pluto. Some astronomers praised ...

Article: Pluto gets demoted; Group redefines Clyde Tombaugh's ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  August 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the 93-year-old widow of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto and objects like it will be ... still a phone, why isn't a dwarf planet still a planet? NASA said Pluto's downgrade would not affect ...

Article: A dwarf planet? Pluto deserves better.(Daily ...
The Virginian Pilot;  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... you read that right - Pluto is no longer considered ... visiting Wikipedia's Pluto disambiguation page ... reclassification as a "dwarf planet." Pause. OK, so ... unsettling to think that Pluto will no longer stand ... you couldn't spell "dwarf planet" without the letters ...

Article: Pluto Isn't Even Largest Dwarf Planet
AP Online;  June 14, 2007 ;     360 words ... ... WASHINGTON - Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet ... into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that ... This is sort of Pluto's last stand," joked ... dwarf planets, and Pluto was thought to be the ... moon of Eris, another dwarf planet. Using the Keck Observatory ...