Demoted Pluto Takes Another Hit


	Demoted Pluto Takes Another Hit

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6-15-2007 10:33 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9483848-8567-4c4f-86ab-f7f3ea2e1753/5A9525DB-B5CF-42E5-A20B-93FE1C93745A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space"><SPAN class="primeColor">Demoted Pluto Takes Another Hit</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/742A825B-0CF3-46AC-8DF5-244DE7F031C3" alt="Demoted, Again?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space"><P><B>June 14, 2007</B> — Pluto, newly dethroned from its planetary status, isn't even the largest of the dwarf planets, a category created to handle the plethora of discoveries of Pluto-like worlds in the far, frozen reaches of the solar system.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space"><P>Neighbor Eris, whose discovery in 2003 prompted the review that kicked Pluto out of the planet club, is about 27 percent more massive than its better-known sister.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/pluto_spa.html?category=space"><P>"There was a possibility that Pluto and Eris were roughly the same size, but these new results show that it's second place at best for Pluto," said California Institute of Technology astronomer Michael Brown, who published his findings in this week's <I>Science.</I></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5A9525DB-B5CF-42E5-A20B-93FE1C93745A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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