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From SPACE.com:
The solar system seems to be getting more crowded by the day as its once nine-world population gives way to a realm of planets, dwarfs and the dim and distant plutoids.
But in reality, the solar system is still the same. It's just the names for the new stuff astronomers find that are changing.
The cosmic can of worms opened in 2006 when after much debate the International Astronomical Union (IAU) - an international society of astronomers - demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status, 76 years after its discovery.
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