GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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dwarf planet
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planet
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comet
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. There may be millions of these icy objects, collectively referred to as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in this distant region of our solar system.
Detailed explanation-2: -On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced it had re-classified Pluto as a dwarf planet. From 1930 until then, Pluto had been considered a normal planet and the outermost planet of the solar system. As technology had advanced, though, astronomers could see fainter objects.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 . The best-known dwarf planet, Pluto is also the largest in size and the second largest in mass. Pluto has five moons. The largest, Charon, is over half the size of its host.