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Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved. |
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science.nasa.gov
Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the IAU because other objects might cross its orbit. |
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theconversation.com
In 2006, and after much debate, the International Astronomical Union came up with a new definition for a planet. And for the first time, the term "dwarf planet" was used. |
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astroengine.com
Earth likely passed through "a fold in theheliospheric current sheet," which induced a powerful electrical surge down here on the ground. While science news is filled with rumbling earthquakes and rippling gravitational waves, a different kind of perturbation was felt in Norway yesterday (Jan. 6)-but its cause is a little mysterious. "Electrical currents started flowing,"... |
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