Solar System May Swell to 12 Planets Under New Definition

Augusta Chronicle, The › August 18, 2006

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic -Our solar system would have 12 planets instead of nine under a proposed "Big Bang" expansion by leading astronomers, changing what billions of schoolchildren are taught about their corner of the cosmos.

Much-maligned Pluto would remain a planet - and its largest moon plus two other heavenly bodies would join Earth's neighborhood - under a draft resolution to be formally presented today to the International Astronomical Union, the arbiter of what is and isn't a planet.

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Solar System May Swell to 12 Planets Under New Definition

"Yes, Virginia, Pluto is a planet," quipped Richard Binzel, a professor of plane...

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