Sentences with phrase «planethood status»
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Since slipping into orbit around the solar system's second-most massive asteroid last July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has confirmed Vesta's status as a body whose arrested growth denied it true planethood.
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Last August, after 75 years of planethood, Pluto lost its status when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) came up with a new definition of what it means to be a planet.