Name the planet that is eliminated from the solar system?
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Pluto
pluto
PLUTO
pluto - it was reclassified
Pluto ...it was too small :(
Pluto and it wasn't eliminated from the solar system just redesign
surely pluto - its true
PLUTO
do you watch tv or read the news paper. it's bye bye pluto...
it is no longer considered a planet. i think it belongs now to dwarfs
Pluto Learns Eight Is Enough for Planets
By John Johnson Jr. and Jia-Rui Chong, Times Staff Writers
August 25, 2006
Like the Edsel, the Flying Wing, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ninth planet became a relic of history Thursday when international astronomers meeting in the Czech Republic decided Pluto was too small to remain a full member of the planetary club.
Members of the International Astronomical Union overwhelmingly voted to demote Pluto to a "dwarf planet." Though still retaining the term planet, it was clear that Pluto had been exiled.
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"Pluto's out," said Michael E. Brown, the Caltech astronomer whose discovery last year of a planet-like object called UB313 reignited the long-running debate over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. "People are going to be unhappy, but it's the right thing to do. This is a great moment in science."
"I'm just glad they decided something," said Marc Buie, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., where Pluto was discovered in 1930.
The vote reverses a recommendation made last week by a committee of the IAU, the sole authority for classifying and naming astronomical bodies.
The earlier proposal said that to be a planet, a body need only be round and orbit the sun.
Under that definition, there would have been dozens of new planets added to the solar system, something the astronomers gathered in Prague refused to accept.
Instead, the astronomers adopted a definition that also requires a planet to "clear its area," meaning that it dominates in its neighborhood of the solar system and prevents any other similar-sized objects from forming. That eliminated Pluto, one of thousands of objects in the Kuiper Belt, 3.6 billion miles from the sun.
"Poor little Pluto," said Patricia Tombaugh, the 93-year-old widow of the man who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. "Kids are going to be upset."
It's pluto!
pluto
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