{"id":10044,"date":"2006-09-18T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/09\/18\/i-am-not-a-number-i-am-a-free-planet.html"},"modified":"2006-09-18T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:42:28","slug":"i_am_not_a_number_i_am_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/i_am_not_a_number_i_am_a.html","title":{"rendered":"“I am not a number! I am a free planet!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Number 6<\/a>, meet Number 134340<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet. On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.<\/p>\n

The move reinforces the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) recent decision to strip Pluto of its planethood and places it in the same category as other small solar-system bodies with accurately known orbits.<\/p>\n

Pluto’s companion satellites, Charon, Nix and Hydra are considered part of the same system and will not be assigned separate asteroid numbers, said MPC director emeritus Brian Marsden. Instead, they will be called 134340 I, II and III, respectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via GeekPress<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Number 6, meet Number 134340: Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet. 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