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Pluto by the millions

Why does the solar system have eight planets instead of nine since 2006? In fact, this is because, as the furthest one, Pluto belongs to a family of small heavenly bodies whose significance has just begun to be discovered. Out there in the far frozen cold distance, its seems that there may exist millions of what one now calls Trans-Neptunian objects.

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French

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