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1. Astronomer Upset at New Planet Proposal [ Report dead link ]

Washington Post article describes Michael Brown's disagreement with a proposal to expand the definition of a planet to include, among others, his own discovery.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/19/AR2006081900344.html

2. CBS News: Pluto: Planet Or Junk Snowball? [ Report dead link ]

Outlines the history of the debate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/14/tech/main673946.shtml

3. Gravity Rules: The Nature of Planethood [ Report dead link ]

Article discussing possible definitions that qualify objects, such as Pluto and Sedna in the Kuiper Belt, as being planets or not.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/outerplanets-04b.html

4. IAU Resolutions 5&6 [ Report dead link ]

The International Astronomical Union's definition of a planet in the Solar System and ruling on the classification of Pluto.[pdf format]

http://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf

5. IAU: Trans-Neptunian Object 2003 UB313 [ Report dead link ]

Re-announces formation of a working group to produce a formal definition of a planet, in conjunction with the announcement of this Trans-Neptunian object larger than Pluto, which will not be named pending a formal definition.

http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/2003_UB313.html

6. Is Pluto a Giant Comet? [ Report dead link ]

Discusses related discoveries and excerpts.

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/ICQPluto.html

7. Much ado about Pluto [ Report dead link ]

News release from NASA affirming Pluto's planetary status.

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast17feb99_1.htm

8. National Geographic News: Pluto: Planet or Comet? [ Report dead link ]

Discusses Pluto's similarity to other Kuiper Belt objects, and introduces a 5-way classification scheme for solar system objects to break down the lumping together of dissimilar planets.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0216_Pluto.html

9. New Horizons: Is Pluto a Planet? [ Report dead link ]

Brief discussion of the controversy, and suggested classification of "Ice Dwarf" for Pluto, Charon, Sedna, and similar objects.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/science/everything_pluto/11_pluto_planet.html

10. Pluto [ Report dead link ]

Argues that Pluto is the most important Kuiper Belt object, not the least important planet, based on its orbit and other properties. From astronomer Dave Jewitt, who studies comets and other primitive solar system bodies.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/kb/pluto.html

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