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Astronomers Propose New Criteria to Classify Planets, but Pluto Still Doesn't Make the Cut
An artist's rendition of the eight planets in our solar system. The planets are depicted closer together than they really are. NASA / JPL Nearly two decades after Pluto got kicked out of the planet club, astronomers are proposing an updated way to …