Aug. 24, aka #PlutoDemotedDay, is when Pluto became a dwarf planet. For 76 years — from its discovery in 1930 until 2006 — Pluto was considered a planet. Countless school children learned their nine ...
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to strictly define a planet, which ultimately downgraded Pluto from the ninth planet from the sun to a dwarf planet — causing controversy ...
Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear. On April 1, ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A single day on Pluto is as long as 6.9 Earth days. Today, Feb. 18 is Pluto Day. You may ask yourself why Pluto has its own day since it is no longer considered a planet of our ...
WASHINGTON -- "Our sidewalk dodged a bullet," said Harvey Leifert, spokesman for the American Geophysical Union, offering his take on the great solar system shake-up of 2006. When the Washington-based ...
Fans of Pluto, beware. The diminutive world on the outer edges of the solar system may yet have its membership in the planetary club revoked. It looked as if Pluto had been saved when the ...
Discovery has ordered a mini-documentary special on the dwarf planet Pluto that will take a closer look at the controversy surrounding the former planet and why it was demoted to dwarf status in 2006, ...
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After 12 years as an outcast, it looks like Pluto may actually be a planet after all. In a paper published in the journal "Icarus"-- a planetary scientist claims Pluto should have never lost its ...
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