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Pluto May Become a Planet Again
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on July 15, 2015. These two events will make 2015 an exciting year for solar system exploration and discovery. But there is much more to this story than mere science. I expect 2015 will be the year when general consensus, built upon our new...
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Great read, thanks for posting. The other planets are already planning a "Welcome back Pluto" party.
Yeah, I too am happy that Pluto has a good chance of coming back as a Planet. I'll be there, with a welcome back balloon!
I wonder if it will be re-categorized as a binary planet with Charon?
That way, the cranky people who took away Pluto's planetary status can be happy and still call Pluto a dwarf planet by itself.
It needs to be returned to it's lofty status.