"Clyde Tombaugh was an American hero," said Herb Beebe, a longtime colleague. "For that reason alone, Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet should be kept."Pluto should be a planet because an American discovered it.
OK, so maybe it's not so novel after all. Especially since one of the International Astronomical Union's criteria for planethood is that a real planet must be big enough to "clear the neighborhood around its orbit" - meaning, I guess, smush anything that gets in its way.
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