Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet now. Any celestial body that adhers to one of the following properties is treated as a dwarf planet:
1. Is in orbit around the sun 2. Has sufficient mass to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium.
3. Is not a sattelite of a plante 4. Has not ‘cleared the neighbourhood’
This definition reclassified pluto [...]
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Pluto – No more a planet
Posted in Science on August 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
