For a short time, it looked like Pluto was going to be a “Pluton.” Apparently, that word was already in use (though the astronomers didn’t think it could be very important if it didn’t show up in MS Word’s spell check system…). So now it’s called a “Dwarf Planet” and there are brand new Wikipedia entries for everything.
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