Pluto Gets New Name, as Does "Xena"
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Sep. 16, 2006

The former planet has been dubbed asteroid number 134340 to reflect its new status as a "dwarf planet."

Pluto was ousted from the official pantheon of planets late last month when the International Astronomical Union, the governing authority over celestial bodies, finalized the first official definition of "planet" at a meeting in Prague in the Czech Republic.

According to the IAU, a planet is an object that orbits the sun, forms itself into a sphere, and has enough gravitational pull to clear its path of space debris.

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