Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1983 Pioneer 10 became the first man made object to leave the solar
system when it passed the orbit of Neptune. At the time this milestone passed
uncelebrated because this occurred before astronomers decided that Pluto and
other small post Neptune planets couldn't be planets after all because there
were more of them than they thought and they'd have to go through the bother of
having to learn loads of new planet names. Lazy astronomers.
And now
the news:
This
is not a planet, it's a dog:
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