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... the neighbourhood around its orbit. There are many points of view from both sides I will acknowledge both sides before coming to a conclusion. First of all many scientist say Pluto failed to dominate it orbit around the sun in the same way as the other planets Professor Iwan Williams said "The need for a strict definition was deemed necessary after new telescope technologies began to reveal far-off objects that rivalled Pluto in size. Without a new nomenclature, these discoveries raised the prospect that textbooks could soon be talking about 50 or more planets in the Solar System" This point illustrates that if we continue to call Pluto a planet we will have to start to call many other items in orbit planets as well. Scientist is Czech also said, "Pluto was automatically disqualified because its highly elliptical orbit overlaps with that of Neptune. It will now join a new category of dwarf ...
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