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Pluto Demotion Update

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 5, 2006

Statement from NMSU Astronomy Department head regarding reclassification of Pluto, New Mexico State University

Pluto supporters to IAU: The debate’s not over, New Mexico State University

“Friends and colleagues of the late Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, had this to say Friday about the International Astronomical Union’s decision to reclassify Pluto as a “dwarf planet”: Don’t rewrite the textbooks yet.”

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