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Plutoids
Published on 11 Jun 2008 at 12:40 pm.
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We have yet another new word to describe some of the things out there beyond Neptune: Plutoids. As you may recall, a couple of years ago, the International Astronomical Union finally defined the word “planet.” It was something of a shock to many people in the public, but astronomers had never actually […]
