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SOLAR SYSTEM
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Question
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What object in the solar system is considered a dwarf planet?
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Mercury
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Mars
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Pluto
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Neptune
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Explanation:
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: -Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system’s ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Pluto is only about 1, 400 miles wide.
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