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School students in India discover 18 new asteroids as part of the International Asteroid Discovery Project
Pandit Jasraj becomes the first Indian musician to have minor planet named after him
Astronomers confirm that Earth's tiny companion in its orbit around the sun is an asteroid and not space debris
The Earth is not a planet for the same reasons that Pluto is no longer considered as one
Nasa planetary scientists want to promote Pluto to the status of a planet again
If the proposed definition becomes the accepted scientific convention, then that could mean that there are over 110 planets in the solar system.