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IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids"

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IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids"

Kligat writes "The International Astronomical Union has decided that Pluto and Eris should be classified as "plutoids," alongside their 2006 classification as dwarf planets. Under the definition, the self-gravity of a plutoid is enough for it to achieve a near-spherical shape, but not enough for it to clear its orbit of its rocky neighbors, and the plutoid orbits the Sun beyond Neptune." Reader FiReaNGeL links to a similar story at e! Science News.http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?f.../06/11/1857221
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