According to legend, someone plotted the various estimates of Pluto's mass on a graph and concluded that it would eventually disappear completely. Does anyone know when it was composed, and by whom?

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BA mentions that joke here, FWIW.

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Hah! Found it, I think! Check the first comment on that post.

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Thanks! Wow! That article's fantastic! It's also confounding. Who was J. Babinel and how was he predicting Planet X two years after Neptune was discovered? I need to know!!!!

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

I don't know when the "disappearing Pluto" graph first appeared, but I first heard about it in late '67 or early '68 from an astronomy professor in college.

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