The Pluto is again declared a planet in the State of Illinois and it's celebrated today under the theme "Pluto Day" today upon the discovery of the controversial heavenly body back in 1930.
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, | ||||
| 3 | was born on a farm near the Illinois community of Streator; and | ||||
| 4 | WHEREAS, Dr. Tombaugh served as a researcher at the | ||||
| 5 | prestigious Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona; and | ||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, Dr. Tombaugh first detected the presence of Pluto | ||||
| 7 | in 1930; and | ||||
| 8 | WHEREAS, Dr. Tombaugh is so far the only Illinoisan and | ||||
| 9 | only American to ever discover a planet; and | ||||
| 10 | WHEREAS, For more than 75 years, Pluto was considered the | ||||
| 11 | ninth planet of the Solar System; and | ||||
| 12 | WHEREAS, A spacecraft called New Horizons was launched in | ||||
| 13 | January 2006 to explore Pluto in the year 2015; and | ||||
| 14 | WHEREAS, Pluto has three moons: Charon, Nix and Hydra; and | ||||
| 15 | WHEREAS, Pluto's average orbit is more than three billion | ||||
| 16 | miles from the sun; and | ||||
| 17 | WHEREAS, Pluto was unfairly downgraded to a "dwarf" planet | ||||
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