Untamed Nature

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Pluto survives as solar system acquires three more planets


Pluto survives as solar system acquires three more planets
Alok Jha Science correspondent
The Guardian
16 Aug 2006

Science textbooks will have to be ripped up; the solar system is about to get a bunch of new planets. Astronomers want to redefine our home in the Milky Way as a place with 12 — rather than nine — planets orbiting the sun. The proposal comes from a... read more...