Pluto No Longer Considered A Planet
August 25th, 2006 by tisnerDisney’s Pluto Figures at Astronomy Convention
At a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries, the International Astronomical Union removed the status of "planet" from Pluto and relegated it to a new category of "dwarf planet."
Under new rules for planet-hood, Pluto doesn’t fit the bill. A planet must now be "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has suffient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a …nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Pluto’s orbit overlaps Neptune’s.
A stuffed Pluto, such as we find at Walt Disney World, was reported to have been brought into the convention to represent the dwarf planet.
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