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Published online 24 August 2006 |
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| doi:10.1038/news060821-11
Corrected online: 25 August 2006
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Pluto loses planet status
Tense debate ends with a definition of 'planet'.
Pluto has been kicked out of our Sun's planetary family by astronomers who voted today to define a planet by three criteria. It failed on one of them.
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