Gallery: Q&A: Astronomer Mike Brown on How He Killed Pluto
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*Photo: Walter Myers/Photo Researchers, Inc.*
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The eight real planets in our solar system. *Image: NASA, JPL*
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Pluto, the non-planet. *Image: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)*
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Faces of Pluto. *Image: NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)*
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"Astronomers on the New Horizons team, who sent a spacecraft to Pluto in 2006, are very unhappy. The thing their craft is going to is no longer a planet. It’s sort of fun to tease them about that." *Image: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute*
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Astronomer Mike Brown played a role in booting Pluto out of the planetary pantheon. *Image: Nasa, JPL-Caltech*
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Images from the Hubble Space Telescope. *Image: NASA, ESA, A. Stern (Southwest Research Institute), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team*
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Pluto, the erstwhile planet, and its moon Charon. *Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt (SSC)*
