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When Pluto was stripped of its planetary status in 2006, the 93 year old widow of Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto, felt "shook up". Lowell Observatory Director preferred a rejected proposal that would have added three planets to the solar system instead of dropping Pluto


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