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Letter: First class post - 9 June 2018

Published 6 June 2018

Asteroids squished can form a planet. Pluto is comets squished and has a comet's eccentric orbit Brinda Thomas responds to people demanding that Pluto, found to be comets squished together, be called a planet (2 June, p 8)

Issue no. 3181 published 9 June 2018

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