• Question: Why is Pluto not classed as a planet

    Asked by 762radg37 to Kate, Ajay, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 8 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by ammu.
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      Kate Elliott answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      That far out in the solar system there are lots of rocky objects which are a similar size to Pluto when they first discovered Pluto they didn’t realise this but then they began to find more and more so they now call them dwarf planets. I still class it as a planet though!

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