PLUTO IS NOT PLANET NOW (did you know )???????

 Pluto is not Planet now 

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• On the basis of the new definition of the planet given by the IAU (International Astronomical Union), the world's top institution on space science research, leading astronomers participating in IUA's meet at prague (Czech Republic) on August 24, 2006, declared that Pluto would no longer remain a planet.
• Under the IAU's new guidelines, the number of the planets in the Solar System has thus been reduced from nine to eight. Its merits mentioning here that, prior to this decision, Pluto had been holding the planetary states since its discovery in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
• Now, with the omission of Pluto from the Solar System, its membership has been restricted to the eight' classical' planets, namely Mercury, Vens  Earth,, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

( from the book Lucent's)