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Pluto at 90 Tombaugh’s discovery revolutionized knowledge of our solar system

Ninety years ago today, Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. In doing so he unknowingly opened the door to the vast “third zone” of ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune

Hubble yields new knowledge about Pluto’s moons

Madrid, Jun 4 (EFE).Madrid, Jun 4 (EFE). — Just weeks before NASA’s New Horizons probe flies by Pluto, a study of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded new knowledge about the ...
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Five Years Later, Pluto’s Planethood Demotion Still Stirs Controversy

SEATTLE — Five years ago, the solar system lost a planet. On Aug. 24, 2006, Pluto — which had been known as the ninth planet since its 1930 discovery — was demoted to the newly created category of ...
Lancashire Telegraph

3bn-mile quest for knowledge begun by Pluto pioneer

AN EAST Lancashire scientist was today getting to grips with a raft of new data after a space probe ‘phoned home’. Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto, ...
theepochtimes

New Horizons Is an Old Spacecraft—but It Will Transform Our Knowledge of Pluto

After traveling for nearly 10 years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is finally set to fly past Pluto on July 14 in humankind’s first close encounter with the dwarf planet. But the spacecraft is at ...