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Once Pluto, king of all the netherworld, got some respect among astronomers. In 1930, he joined his brethren as the namesake for the farthest planet in our solar system. But among some astronomical ingrates, Pluto has recently fallen out of favor. Two years ago Pluto was almost reduced to a mere "minor planet" by the International Astronomers Union, and last February New York's Rose Center for Earth and Space left Pluto off the list entirely, relegating him instead to a disk of icy comets known as the Kuiper Belt. One year later, passions still rage in the astronomical community...
Many would find it absurd to challenge Pluto's planetary qualifications. It circles our sun, it has a moon (Charon, the boatman of the Styx), it is roughly spherical, it has an atmosphere--and it has a cartoon dog named after it. If that's not enough for a planet, what...
...Ever since Galileo trained his telescope on Jupiter and sighted, to his amazement, four Medicean stars never before seen with human eyes--ever since then we have been searching for new lights in the heavens. The discovery of Pluto inspired children's dreams of one day finding the newest Planet...
...late to seek a newer world. Let us save Pluto, the planet we have loved, and save the dream of planets yet unknown...
...none has gone to trial because police can't decipher all the evidence they've collected. A spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service says, "We have the latest systems ... there is no refuge for pedophiles in cyberspace." But that sounds like studied bravado. "Sure, if every computer on the planet spent three months on one of these codes you might crack it," says John Carr, Internet consultant to the British children's charity nch. "But right now, the seesaw is definitely tilting toward the bad guys...