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Space Mystery: Did the Man Who Killed Pluto Act Too Hastily?
Jan 12th 2011 – 5:00PM
NASA
Michael E. Brown, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, killed Pluto. But now there are questions about the murder plot. After Brown's study of a celestial body named Eris, he declared in 2005 that it was larger (or at least "more massive") than Pluto, then the ninth planet in the solar system. About a...
Pluto, Former Planet, Ready for Its Close-Up
Feb 4th 2010 – 8:22PM
NASA
(Feb. 4) -- Pluto may no longer be considered an official planet, but that doesn't mean astronomers are neglecting it. On Thursday, NASA released "the most detailed set of images ever taken" of the dwarf planet and also a composite video of it rotating. The 350 images from NASA were snapped between 2002 and 2003 by the...
Background on pluto
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.
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