IAU Dubs Dwarf Planets ‘Plutoids’
The International Astronomical Union, which knocked Pluto off its official list of planets in 2006 (AW&ST Sept. 4, 2006, p. 16), has decided to name the whole class of dwarf planets in the trans-neptune region “plutoids.” They are objects orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune with enough gravity to assume...
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