Good news for Pluto

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Two more moons have been discovered orbiting Pluto, bringing its total to three- and making it a bit tougher to argue that it's not really a planet, especially since they're all in the same plane as Pluto's previously-known moon, Charon.

But of course, since the whole controversy over Pluto's status arises from the fact that there is no actual, generally-accepted scientific definition of the word "planet" in the first place...

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