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Meet the Nominees

Dwarves and plutons deserve recognition, too. That's the view of an International Astronomical Union panel, which has recommended that three more celestial bodies be officially added to the solar system's eight classical planets -- all discovered before 1900 -- and Pluto (which is also a dwarf and a pluton). The three are:

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