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Science

Sorry, Pluto’s still not a planet

Scientific American · August 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM

On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision would be driven more by nostalgia than science

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