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Finally planet Pluto became one of the  dwarf palnets in our solar system. Its planetary status was taken away yesterday by International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is the farthest planet from the sun and was discovered only 76 years back in 1930.  In fact Pluto was not a single planet but is a duel planetery system with its moon Cheron which is of equal size to Pluto. According to astronomers pluto is one of the Kupier Belt Objects (KBOs) which are icy objects at the outer belt of the solar system. The first KBO was discovered in 1990s. Plutos mroperties are more akin to KBOs than that of the other eight plants of the solar system. Till 2003 Pluto was the largets KBO discovered but with the discovery of  2003UB213 the Pluto status of being a plante was further questioned. It took somany years to finally decide that it is not a planet but one of the dwarf palnets in our solar system. So we are left with only 8 palnets as on today.

All is well but waht happens to our Astrlogical predictions?. Are we to use only 8 planets in our birth charts? No idea !!

(Most of the technical material was taken from http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/headline_universe/solar_system/stories_2006/pluto_nonplanet_aug_2006.html&edu=high
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