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Poor Pluto!(The Week)(delisted by International Astronomical Union)(Brief article)
* Poor Pluto! Stripped of its status as a planet by the International Astronomical Union last August, it has now been further demoted. Investigations by two Caltech astronomers, reported in a recent issue of Science, demonstrate that the more remote body named Eris, discovered in 2005, is more massive than Pluto, so that those reactionaries who persist in thinking of Pluto as a planet must count Eris as one, too. Since Eris is merely one among numberless objects in the trans-Plutonian zone known as the Kuiper belt, no doubt there will be further insults to the dignity of Pluto, and to those patriots who long ...
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