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BOOK REVIEWEDIs Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System

by David A. Weintraub

Princeton University Press: 2006. 248 pp. $27.95, £17.95

Pluto carries much the same sentimental, emotional and historical overload as Father Christmas. Even the name for this frozen dwarf, suggested in 1930 by 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, UK, is evocative, having mythological connections.

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