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On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to downgrade Pluto to a dwarf planet, causing controversy both scientifically and culturally.

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Pluto Day is observed annually on February 18 to celebrate the discovery of the dwarf planet in 1930.

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On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to downgrade Pluto to a dwarf planet, causing controversy both scientifically and culturally.

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August 24 is a special holiday called Pluto Demoted Day.It isn’t exactly a holiday. No one gives presents, and nobody gets the day off. Many people don’t even know about Pluto Demoted Day. But some people do, because it’s a day that changed school books and charts of the solar system. It also changed a […]

NASA/KSC To explore the Pluto-Charon system, NASA designed the small New Horizons probe and put it on one of the largest rockets, the Atlas V. When it left Earth, New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever, zooming to the end of the solar system at a speed of more than 58,000 km (36,000 miles) per hour. With the exploration of Pluto, NASA probes would have visited every planet, but before New Horizons even got past Jupiter… August 24, 2006: Pluto Demoted to Dwarf Planet The dwarf planet Cer...