02.26.2009 11:07 am
Illinois Senate nudges Pluto back to its proper orbit
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
Pluto
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate, by a unanimous vote, has just granted “full planetary status” to Pluto (the permanently frozen deep-space object, not the cartoon dog).
Turns out the guy who discovered Pluto in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, was born in…
