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Originally Posted by MSNBC
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Leading astronomers approved historic new planet guidelines Thursday — downsizing Earth's neighborhood from nine principal heavenly bodies to eight by demoting distant Pluto.
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s.
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Just kind of weird, I grew up learning that there were 9 planets in our solar system, and now one is just not gonna be there anymore.