Move over, Pluto. (Space News).

Science World | December 13, 2002| | Copyright

It's a fact of life, right? The solar system contains nine planets. Don't be so sure. A growing number of scientists think it's time to scratch Pluto from the lineup. "Scientifically it makes sense," says planetary astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Brown's evidence? An icy rock-he and a colleague recently discovered. It orbits 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) from the Sun in Pluto's neighborhood--a region of ice and rocks beyond Neptune's orbit called the Kuiper Belt.

The discoverers have named the icy chunk ...

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