Pluto is being visited tomorrow.

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13 Jul 2015, 7:50 am

By a spacecraft that will fly by it. It is the only one of what were the traditional nine planets that hadn't been visited yet by a spacecraft, though it is no longer classified as a planet.

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13 Jul 2015, 2:31 pm

So, are they going to beam a solar system "eviction notice" to the poor ... whatever it's called now? :lol:

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14 Jul 2015, 5:04 am

NewTime wrote:

By a spacecraft that will fly by it.

Unless New Horizons finds an unknown Plutonian moon and crashes into it.

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14 Jul 2015, 10:09 am

zer0netgain wrote:

So, are they going to beam a solar system "eviction notice" to the poor ... whatever it's called now? :lol:

They will beam it the voice of Donald Trump saying "You're fired!".

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14 Jul 2015, 12:45 pm

It's still classified as a planet--a dwarf planet.

That's not a dwarf asteroid, dwarf shrub or dwarf galaxy. It's a dwarf planet

And it's beautiful, and Charon is so big it's part of a binary system like the Earth-Moon system.

What a great day this is!

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14 Jul 2015, 1:15 pm

Adamantium wrote:

"dwarf planet" is a term like "minor planet" and "rogue planet". Dwarf planets, minor planets and rogue planets aren't planets much like sea horses aren't horses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet

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