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Finally Seeing The Pluto System In All Its Glory

Jul 13, 2015

Pluto does not meet the definition of a planet but as we will see that does not diminish it. Far from a random and uninteresting chunk of ice, with little local gravitational influence on it’s neighborhood, it is an example of binary planetoids with tantalizing features. UPDATE

Hontas Farmer

Theoretical astrophysicist.

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