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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4392. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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A collective term for the largest planetary bodies in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Pluto, included in this category since its discovery in 1930, was found in the 1970s and 1980s to be smaller and less massive than seven of the solar system's planetary satellites, and just over twice the size of the largest asteroid, Ceres. In the 1980s...

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