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Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got ...
What We've Learned About Pluto. We’ve learned a lot about poor, poor little Pluto — thanks to NASA’s New Horizons probe, which visited the dwarf planet in 2015.
(Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet.) Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye.