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Two years after it was stripped of its privileges as a planet, Pluto takes a new hit coming from the International Astronomical Union which has taken it out of the dwarf planet family and placed it into a rather strange new one called 'plutoids'. The IAU decided in 2006 that Pluto should be demoted from the... |
12 June 2008
02:58 GMT |
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There is definitely something out there, orbiting in the outer edge of the solar system. Maybe a planet with a size comparable to that of Earth, locked in a highly elliptical eccentric orbit, hidden away from our keen eyes. But what if we're looking in the wrong place? According to professor Tadashi Mukai from K... |
18 March 2008
05:37 GMT |
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More than two years ago, before Pluto was demoted from its status of planet to that of minor planet, it was still considered the most remote planet from the Sun. Or, was it? If you look closer to the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, you might observe something unexpected. Pluto occasionally comes closer to the Sun than N... |
22 January 2008
08:21 GMT |
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There is another planet beyond the orbit of Neptune, and scientists say it's not Pluto. Ever wondered what the X in the name stands for? The X is the equivalent for unknown, opposed to the general believe that it represents the Roman numeral for 10. And another thing... how do you discover a planet that has neve... |
16 January 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Charon is the largest satellite of the now dwarf planet Pluto, also referred to as Pluto I, over half the diameter of Pluto, dominated by what was thought to be stable water ice and it has no atmosphere. It is largely an icy body and contains less rock by proportion than its partner Pluto, supporting the idea it was... |
18 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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