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Astrologers scrambled to invent a personality for Pluto immediately after its 1930 discovery

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Nothing exposes a pseudoscience quite like discovering a brand new planet. When astronomers found Pluto in 1930, astrologers panicked and rapidly assigned it the traits of death, rebirth, and transformation. It took them centuries to map the other planets, but Pluto's personality was apparently obvious overnight.

Astrologers scrambled to invent a personality for Pluto immediately after its 1930 discovery
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