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Planet lovers campaign to save Pluto Express - 28/07/00
Pluto dismissed as lump of ice - 27/01/01
Pluto's mysterious streak mapped - 02/02/01
Pluto Flight Plan Trimmed To Save Time, Money and Fuel - 21/02/02
Scientists plan Pluto flyby - 26/02/02
Scientists clamor for Pluto, Europa missions - 13/07/02
Pluto's moon lines up for science - 27/07/05
Farewell Pluto? - 02/08/05
Hubble reveals new map of Pluto - 12/09/05
Two new moons found around Pluto - 01/11/05
Pluto moon 'has no atmosphere' - 07/01/06
The girl who named a planet - 13/01/06
Pluto mission ready for lift-off - 16/01/06
Mission guide: New Horizons - 17/01/06
Pluto probe launches from Florida - 19/01/06
Pluto's moon no longer an only child - 22/02/06
Pluto’s newfound moons are all in the family - 10/03/06 Similarity in color points to common origin, astronomers say
Crunch time for Planet Pluto - 20/06/06 For the first time, the International Astronomical Union will be officially defining the word "planet"
Nix and Hydra join Pluto's family - 22/06/06
Pluto on the chopping block - 14/08/06 Astronomers meet to define 'planet'
Proposal would increase planets from 9 to 12 - 16/08/06 A planet is now any round object larger than 800 kilometers. Earth's moon would not qualify because the two bodies' common center of gravity lies below the surface of the Earth
Planets plan boosts tally to 12 - 16/08/06
Pluto loses status as a planet - 24/08/06 The scientists agreed that for a celestial body to qualify as a planet: it must be in orbit around the Sun, it must be large enough that it takes on a nearly round shape, it has cleared its orbit of other objects
Pluto gets the boot - 24/08/06
Pluto vote 'hijacked' in revolt - 25/08/06 Dr Alan Stern: "It's an awful definition; it's sloppy science and it would never pass peer review"
Pluto status suffers another blow - 14/06/07
Pluto Now Called a Plutoid - 11/06/08
The lower atmosphere of Pluto revealed - 02/03/09
New Horizons Crosses a Threshold: Closer to Pluto than Earth - 30/12/09
Pluto's dynamic surface revealed by Hubble images - 05/02/10
Recent news on the debate over Pluto's planethood - 29/11/10
Hubble spies fourth moon at Pluto - 20/07/11
Hubble telescope finds hints of 'building blocks of life' on Pluto - 22/12/11
Fifth Moon Found Around Pluto - 11/07/12
Pluto's moons, possible rings may be hazards to New Horizons spacecraft - 16/10/12
Vulcan tops vote to name Pluto moons - 26/02/13
Pluto may have 10 more undiscovered moons -- that's a problem - 22/03/13
Pluto moons get mythical new names - 02/07/13
Hello Pluto! NASA’s Visit to the Mystery World Begins - 05/01/15
Dwarf planet Pluto's dark and light terrains - 12/06/15
New Horizons: Pluto shows its spots to Nasa probe - 02/07/15
The 'Other' Red Planet - 03/07/15
New Horizons detects methane on Pluto - 03/07/15

A Portrait from the Final Approach to Pluto and Charon - 13/07/15
Charon’s Newly-Discovered System of Chasms - 13/07/15
Views of Pluto Through the Years - 15/07/15
Hydra Emerges from the Shadows - 15/07/15
Stephen Colbert fights with Neil deGrasse Tyson over Pluto's planet status - 15/07/15
New Horizons Close-Up of Charon’s ‘Mountain in a Moat’ - 16/07/15
Pluto Wags its Tail: New Horizons Discovers a Cold, Dense Region of Atmospheric Ions Behind Pluto - 17/07/15
NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ - 17/07/15
NASA’s New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’ - 21/07/15
New Horizons Captures Two of Pluto's Smaller Moons - 21/07/15
What in the world(s) are tholins? - 23/07/15
Global Mosaic of Pluto in True Color - 24/07/15
'Completely Wild': Pluto Close-Ups From New Horizons Boggle Astro-Minds - 10/09/15
New Horizons resumes image return - 11/09/15 sand dunes?
The Geology of Pluto - 14/09/15
New Horizons: Foggy haze seen in Pluto images - 17/09/15
Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons - 24/09/15
Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History - 01/10/15
New Horizons: Probe captures Pluto's blue hazes - 08/10/15
Charon in 3D - 13/10/15
Pluto among the 'most diverse worlds' in our Solar System - 15/10/15
New Horizons: First Pluto journal paper discusses dwarf planet's origins - 15/10/15
Pluto's moon Kerberos finally shows itself - Oct 23, 2015
New Horizons: Pluto may have ice volcanoes - 09/11/15
NASA releases the highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto - 04/12/15
Enormous Volcano On Pluto Might Be The Biggest In The Outer Solar System - 15/01/16
Pluto's mysterious, floating hills - 04/02/16
Pluto's moon Charon is bursting at the seams, astronomers find - 26/02/16
Pluto reveals more secrets - 17/03/16
New Horizon data reveals Pluto’s chemical make up - 17/03/16
Why Pluto is a frigid prison for nitrogen ice - 17/03/16
The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons - 18/03/16
Pluto’s interaction with its space environment: Solar wind, energetic particles, and dust - 18/03/16
The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons - 18/03/16
Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon - 18/03/16








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