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Definitions of bodies in the solar system

840 dwarf planets discovered beyond Neptune-Rahab - and what they can tell us

A new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of the solar system

The search for planet X

A dwarf planet has been discovered far beyond Pluto's orbit

Indirect evidence for the existence of a ninth planet: a gas giant that orbits the Sun once every ten thousand years

Why is Earth bigger than Mars?

Is a giant planet at the edge of the solar system responsible for some of the comets?

Uranus is from today Oron and Neptune from now on Rahab

2012: There Is No Planet X (Nibiru)

A new body in the solar system has been named: the Umeya dwarf planet

The World Astronomical Union throws Pluto a bone - it and the trans-Neptunian bodies will be called plutoids

The number of planets in the solar system - does it really matter how much?

Were the changes in the definitions of the planets essential and how much their contribution affects the space sciences

Prof. Zvi Maza/The struggle for Pluto as a planet

New solar system(?)

In a flash - Pluto is still a planet

Astronomers challenge the decision to downgrade Pluto and call it a hijacker

"Many tearful eyes" at the IAU conference in Prague where it was decided to demote Pluto

The strict ones won - Pluto loses its status as a planet and becomes a 'dwarf planet'

Today the vote on the definition of the planets in the solar system * Proposal: adding the atmosphere as a criterion

"The very definition takes the magic out of the planets"

Eight stars?

12 Kochbia: the sequence of decisions regarding the determination of the definition of the planets

Changing the maps: the solar system will expand to 12 stars

Commentary: Has Pluto degradated or not?

There is a compromise in which the number of planets will increase to 12 and a waiting list of additional bodies will be opened