While Pluto is no longer a full-sized planet, it still has many properties that we care to learn about. It’s still the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, and by volume it’s the largest of the dwarf planets in our solar system. And its unprecedented popularity has cemented itself into the hearts of the public,
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A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that: is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, not massive enough to do fusion, and has cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals. Our star (the sun) has 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Though these
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