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Pluto lost its status of being a planet after the definition of planet was changed by the International Astronomical Union. “Pluto was automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s” the BBC reports.

Now “the eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU resolution which was passed in the Czech capital by 2,500 astronomers. Pluto now falls into the new category of “dwarf planets”.

Posted on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 18:22 by Daniel M. Gattermann. This Post is filed under Science, Universe. You can follow responses through the and view other blogs commenting on this post. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site.