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- Pluto is the planet of great change, latent power and untapped
- potential. Expressed in its positive form, Pluto may change your life
- forever with a blinding insight or personal transformation. Pluto fills
- you with a need to lead others and change the world or at least your part
- in it; it urges you to make discoveries or uncover the secrets of the
- past.
- If Pluto is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your horoscope),
- Pluto's influence results in a controlling nature and opens the door for
- treachery, sadism, and violence.
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- Pluto is the ninth (and last?) planet from the Sun and was discovered
- in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh after a 25 year search
- inaugurated by fellow American astronomer Percival Lowell who
- predicted its approximate location based on perturbations in the orbit
- of Uranus.
- More than 3.67 billion miles from the Sun, Pluto requires 247.7 years
- to complete its orbit. Because its orbit is so elliptical, Pluto is
- currently closer to the Sun than Neptune is. The earth is 250 times more
- massive than Pluto, and its diameter is 5.55 times greater.
- Only visible through extremely powerful telescopes, Pluto's Moon,
- Charon, wasn't discovered until 1978.
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- In Roman mythology, Pluto was the god of the dead and assisted his
- brothers, Jupiter and Neptune, in overthrowing their father, Saturn.
- Pluto became the ruler of the underworld and the dead. Pluto was
- associated with the Greek god, Hades.
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