• Question: my favourite planet (not technically a planet its a dwarf planet) is pluto I want to know why it is classified as a dwarf planet is it because there are other dwarf planets that are bigger than pluto in our solar system???

    Asked by game45day to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, Armin on 21 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Maria McNamara

      Maria McNamara answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet because it shares its orbit with some other large celestial objects from the Kuiper belt – it has not cleared its orbit of other objects, which is a required characteristic as defined by the International Astronomical Union.

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