Unidentified Man: Is Neptune a planet, because everybody knows that Neptune's orbit is crossed by Pluto's.
The suburbs of the solar system are filled with small, icy objects, including Pluto.
Even so, Pluto is so far away the probe won't get there for nearly a decade.
By tradition, the moons of Pluto have names associated with Hades and the underworld.
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And there's only a few places like out where Pluto is where these bodies have survived.
On a standard chart the plot point for Bill Gates looks like Pluto's orbit.
Did you put together this petition because you're pro-Pluto and you want the decision reversed?
And it's not even that Pluto's twin, Charon, is going to be a planet too.
Astronomers opposed to Pluto's demotion have launched a petition to try to get it reinstated.
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Despite their proximity, Pluto and Charon are covered with bright frosts of differing compositions.
That distance nearly doubles just half a Pluto-year later, to 50 AU in 2123.
And features on Pluto, when they are eventually mapped, will be called after underworld deities.
These two recent discoveries show that the Pluto system is more crowded than scientists had thought.
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In particular, the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences has weighed in on Pluto's behalf.
One way to resolve the issue might be to send an unmanned space probe to Pluto.
Bear in mind that Pluto was some 3.1 billion miles away when these images were taken.
On questions relating to Israel and the Palestinians, Democrats are on Neptune and Republicans are on Pluto.
But it doesn't really matter that Pluto has been demoted because it's just a name for something.
Brown's team, using the Hubble telescope, found the object's diameter to be just 70km bigger than Pluto's.
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Sources say the panel's new definition for planets would, in fact, create a third category embracing Pluto.
The Sun enters Scorpio and aspects every slower planet except Pluto, and there's an intense Mars-Jupiter opposition.
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Pluto's status as an astronomical hot potato if not as a major planet seems assured for some years yet.
The resolution does make Pluto one of a number of dwarf planets, which confusingly are not officially planets.
Another team, using a radio telescope in Spain, has measured Eris to be some 700km larger than Pluto.
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Water-ice covers Charon, while Pluto's surface is predominantly nitrogen frost with traces of methane and carbon monoxide ices.
Choice of a suitably fiddled threshold (say, 1, 000km) would then make Pluto, but not Ceres, a major planet.
Brunello Cucinelli was from someplace so different it would seem like Pluto to most of us at his party.
The discoverers of Pluto's two tiniest moons are inviting the public to help select names for the new moons.
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Pluto itself was demoted from full planet status following a vote at an IAU meeting in Prague in 2006.
If all goes well, NASA will launch the first spacecraft to Pluto today.
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