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US Space Billionaire And NASA Chief Wants Trump To Make Pluto A Planet Again. Here's Why He Can't

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Just like the Gulf of Mexico and ownership of the Moon, it doesn’t work that way.

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NASA administrator Jared Isaacman supports the idea of President Donald Trump reclassifying Pluto as a planet, after which since 2006 it has been considered a "little planet".

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Pluto was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh, originating in Kansas, at the Watchor Lowell of Flagstaff, Arizona, on February 18, 1930, writes IFL Science. It will be the first of such-name transneuptun objects (TNO), objects that orbit beyond Neptun (although Pluto does not do much more about it later). In the early 2000s, other major TNOs gave birth to the discussion if the planet class should be extended. Was there a planet? But Haumea? They wer…

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GEEKSPIN broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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