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Pluto - Is the Kitten Showing Up Again?
People were convinced that these evil scientists had aimed at death ray out there and vaporized, you know, Pluto Earth. No, they just recognized that scientists make mistakes. And in this case, they made a whopper and they hadn't. They had to eat a certain amount of crow. But yeah, I mean, the thing that makes it all even funnier is that by that time they'd also figured out those discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus and Neptune didn't exist. We just had bad numbers in those days. Once we had satellites going around each of them, we figured it all out. And there was clearly not a big, another big planet out there after all.