along with Ceres and all of Pluto's co-orbital friends, to become planets. The latter definition would exclude all of those smaller bodies. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...
This sparked debate about Pluto's status in the planetary canon, which came to a head at a 2006 meeting in Prague. A rendering of an asteroid floating in space That year, the IAU tasked a small ...
Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...
Although Pluto's orbit was more elongated than the ... expect a decent planet to do), it seemed alone in its region of space, much as Ceres had seemed before the other asteroids were discovered.