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Is Pluto a planet?

Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Nov 30, 2015
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Authors:
David J. Eicher
,
Alex Filippenko

Abstract

Pluto has evoked emotions among astronomy enthusiasts and the general public at large as much as any other astronomical object. This was certainly the case in the early 1930s, following its discovery by farm boy turned astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906–1997), and its naming after the Greek god of t...

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