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Discover a world of wonder and excitement when you
journey into The Planetarium at RVCC.
Educational and entertaining planetarium shows will evoke a sense
of adventure as you visit the last frontier from your comfortable
armchair location. Travel through time and space... see the
wonders of the universe from exploding stars to mysterious black
holes. Explore the outer limits of the Milky Way and
learn more about our Solar System from its beginning to the present
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News
Flash!
- Pluto
Declared a Dwarf Planet
Astronomer members of the International
Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from
the standard list of planets, to one of three
dwarf planets.
To be a planet, the assembly ruled, a world must
meet three criteria:
(1)
It must have enough mass and gravity to gather
itself into a ball.
(2) It must orbit the sun.
(3) It must reign supreme in its own orbit,
having "cleared the neighborhood" of other
competing bodies.
Read the
IAU's press release:
http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0603/index.html
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