After a prolonged debate and suspense, Pluto was accepted as the ninth planet orbiting around the sun1'2. One of the major difficulties in the recognition of Pluto as the ninth planet going round the sun was its non-concentric orbit that did not conform to the general trend of elliptical motion of the eight planets discovered earlier, as shown in Figure 1. Scientific efforts for exploring the Kuiper belt continued and two more objects, 2005FY9 and 2003EL61, of somewhat smaller sizes were found. The recently discovered third object, known as KBO 2003UBS 13, is larger in size compared to earlier discov-ered nonconcentric planets3. A debate of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) was scheduled to be held on 24 August 2006 for taking appropriate decision about non-concentric orbits of planets. We sent our proposal by 11 August 2006 for reclassification: eight planets to be placed in the first category and Pluto to be placed in a separate category along with 2003 UBS 13, the fourth non-concentricplanet. We also suggested new names based on historical developments of Indian ancient astronomy as 'Aryabhata' or 'Vivekananda'. In the meeting on 24 August 2006, a decision was taken in conformity with our suggestions, to a large extent4. The two smaller objects, namely 2005FY9 and 2003EL61, were not included and the remaining two non-concentric planets, Pluto and 2003UB313, were taken in a separate category of dwarf planets along with Ceres. The General Assembly named object 2003UB313 as Eris and its moon as Dysnomia. Considering the importance of 2003UB313, details were investigated and it was even named as the tenth planet.
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