Tag: minor planet
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Pluto, and What is a Planet Anyway
In today’s piece, although we are going look at the dwarf planet Pluto, this serves mainly as a background to a discussion of the naming conventions around what planets, dwarf planets and asteroids and comets, also known as minor planets. There are different usages of the word planet, but I wish to be upfront here…
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