Why Is Pluto Classified As A Dwarf Planet
Camila Farah
Scientists found that pluto is two thirds 2 3 rock and one third 1 3 ice.
So if eris is not a planet then clearly. Many people including myself still consider pluto to be the ninth planet. Scientists found out more about pluto s smaller moons too. They learned that pluto s moons spin faster than other moons.
The pictures and information are helping scientists learn more about the dwarf planet. And one of the dwarf planets is even bigger than pluto. To be pedantic jupiter has a lot of asteroids in its orbit at its two lagrange points. Since pluto is so far from earth little was known about the dwarf planet s size or surface conditions until 2015 when nasa s new horizons space probe made a close flyby of pluto.
There appeared to be a need to define what a planet means and that led to what some people consider pluto s demotion to a dwarf planet. Until someone said you know pluto behaves a lot more like those dwarf planets than a planet.
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