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2009
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Plu·to
/ ˈploōtō/
1.
Greek Mythol.
the god of the underworld. Also called Hades.
2.
Astron.
the most remote known planet of the solar system, usually ninth in order from the sun, discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
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 "WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin)")
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Pluto is out! Scientists kicks Pluto out of the planet family.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin); 10/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...you know you can ignore that section on Pluto in your science books. A group of the world's astronomers recently decided that Pluto is no longer an official planet. An astronomer...Horizons is on its way to learn more about Pluto. New Horizons launched in January. It...
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Pluto's demotion gains star status on Internet
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 8/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...4A LOS ANGELES - Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T- shirts on the Internet...who said she "rolled her eyes" after Pluto got the boot, hopes her buyers will...
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Pluto; What It Is
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; "What is Pluto anyway?" a perplexed person asked me...Astronomical Union (IAU), proposed designating Pluto as "minor planet" (or asteroid) No...designation would by implication remove Pluto from the traditional planetary Big Nine...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Pluto out in the cold.(downplaying Pluto's position in the universe)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/6/1999; 700+ words
; Astronomers disagree about whether Pluto really is the solar system's ninth planet...else entirely IS IT correct to refer to Pluto as the most far-out planet in the solar...afternoon of February 11th this year will Pluto (travelling along its unusually elliptical...
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Pluto tries on big planetary shoes
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto -- nine planets that have been orbiting...spheres. Some astronomers are ready to demote Pluto from planetary status -- they want to take away pies. Pluto's story begins shortly after the 1846...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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PLUTO? FAR-OUT! COLORADO RESEARCHERS PUTTING TOGETHER PROPOSALS FOR PROBE TO MOST DISTANT PLANET.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/4/2001; 700+ words
; ...a $500 million NASA mission to oddball Pluto, the only planet in the solar system that...early as December 2004. After flying past Pluto, the outermost of our solar system's...system formed 4.5 billion years ago. ``Pluto and the Kuiper Belt are relic objects left...
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Pluto or bust!(The Space Place)
Magazine article from: The Technology Teacher; 2/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...yet visited the most distant planet, the Pluto-Charon system, or any of the other icy...s birth. Despite being the smallest, Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, remains a big mystery. For example, we know Pluto is solid, like the four inner planets...
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Pluto: limits on its atmosphere, ice on its moon.
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/26/1987; ; 700+ words
; Pluto: Limits on Its Atmosphere, Ice on Its Moon Information about tiny, distant Pluto has come hard. Perhaps the most significant single...little more than a bulge on a series of images of Pluto itself (SN: 7/15/78, p.36). Little...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Pluto has more classthan most other planets
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/14/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in the wrong way. -- E.M. Forster Pluto is no longer a planet? What nonsense...voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto doesn't meet it. The International Astronomical...Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are in, and Pluto is out. They will be called Classical...
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Demoted Pluto proves 9 is the loneliest number
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 9/4/2006; ; 619 words
; ...like a runaway meteorite. Astronomers say Pluto is no longer a planet. I guess when it...size does matter. Of the nine planets, Pluto was always my favorite. What's not to...Named for the Roman god of the underworld, Pluto was the antisocial jerk of our solar system...
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Pluto
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Pluto Pluto ’ s characteristics Charon ’ s characteristics Pluto ’ s strange orbit Until August 2006, Pluto was defined as the outermost planet from the sun in the solar system. A decision by the International Astronomical...
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Surfin ’ Pluto
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Surfin’ Pluto Rock band For the Record… Selected discography Sources Surfin’ Pluto’s sound has been favorably...on a surfboard, over the solar planet Pluto. According to bass player and co-founder...
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PLUTO
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
PLUTO, acronym derived from the phrase Pipe Line Under The Ocean. Experiments began in 1942 by the British HQ, Combined Operations...
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Planet X
Book article from: Space Sciences
...since the discovery of the ninth planet, Pluto, astronomers have speculated about whether...discovering Uranus, and then Neptune, and then Pluto. This led them to believe that additional...enough for them. Second, the search for Pluto, like the search for Neptune before it...
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Minor Planets
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...on remote, elliptical orbits resembling Pluto ’ s. Controversy has raged among...astronomers in recent years over whether Pluto itself should be counted as a large asteroid...Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The planets varied in size and characteristics...
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