What Makes a Planet a Planet? The Story of Pluto
What makes a planet a planet? In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its planet status. Phillip Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss to the reasoning behind the reclassification of planets. Watch this clip from "SciTech Now."
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