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+Gaming & Culture | 817 days ago

NOVA Ponders Pluto: Why We Still Love Our Bastard Planet

By Steven James Snyder

It might surprise you to learn that I do not possess a degree is astronomy. Nor astrophysics. Nor gravitational wave astronomy.

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