In general meeting in Prague for its 26th congress, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto will no longer be considered a planet in the solar system. The star is now ranked as the appellation of "dwarf planet", a new class of solar system bodies, although distinct from the eight "real" planets. Only planet discovered by an American (the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930) the United States was reluctant to change.
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