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Explore the Solar System puzzle and discover why Pluto is not a planet anymore! Can it get a pardon?

Written byJulianne Dalcanton
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When you've been kicked off the Solar System puzzle, you're not a planet anymore.

Maybe Bush can give Pluto a pardon?

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