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What happened to planet pluto?

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Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. read more

Pluto was the last planet discovered, because it was too small and too far away to be seen without the aid of a telescope. Pluto is six billion km from the Sun - that's 40 times the Earth's distance from the Sun. read more

In 2006, the IAU voted to remove Pluto from the list of planets in the Solar System. Instead, Pluto, and other large objects would be classified as Dwarf Planets. Why Pluto is no longer a planet. read more

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