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Leading Scientists and Astronomers from around the world participating in the International Astronomers Union General Assembly discussing the definition of planets have decided to downgrade Pluto's status to leave just eight classical planets.  The decision comes amid a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects. ... [full story]

The US government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said on Monday.     Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.     "We haven't seen them for ... [full story]