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Old 30-08-2006, 07:19 PM
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Here is something interesting I found in one of my old Astronomy books; Worlds without end, H Spencer Jones (The Astronomer Royal of the day) Printed in 1938. It seems Pluto's identity as a planet has always been a tenuous one.
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