Natural History, February 1st, 2003
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From the edge of the solar system come hints of a disrupted youth.
More and more often, some new astronomical discovery is thrusting Pluto and its home, the Kuiper Belt, into the public eye. Most of the attention focuses on Pluto's status as one of our solar system's major planets. Should it retain that status, even though astronomers know Pluto really is just a ball of ice and rock, smaller than our Moon?
A few months ago the flames were fanned again, when Michael E. Brown and Chadwick A. Trujillo, both astronomers at Caltech, announced the discovery of a large new Kuiper Belt ob...
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