Act locally, think intergalactically, Pluto is a planet in Illinois

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 March, 2009 to the comment subset

Today is Pluto Day, at least if you live in the US state of Illinois, where lawmakers have also decreed that Pluto is a planet, in contravention of the International Astronomical Union 2006 ruling declaring it be classified a dwarf planet, as it is “too small” to be a full-sized planet.
Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto [...]

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