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    Demoting Pluto: The Discovery of Dwarf Planets
    Demoting Pluto: The Discovery of Dwarf Planets
    Demoting Pluto: The Discovery of Dwarf Planets
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    Demoting Pluto: The Discovery of Dwarf Planets

    By Steve Kortenkamp

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    When is a planet not a planet? Dwarf planets orbit the sun, are solid bodies, and are not moons. But they are not considered regular planets. Learn more about these spherical oddities and why Pluto is still hotly debated today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2015
    ISBN9781491478875
    Demoting Pluto: The Discovery of Dwarf Planets

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      Demoting Pluto - Steve Kortenkamp

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      Introduction

      What’s in Space?

      Do you ever look at the sky and wonder what’s out there? You may know about the planets, the sun, and the moon. But there are actually billions of other objects in our solar system. Some are giant. Others are tiny. They orbit the sun along with the eight planets and their moons. How do scientists know what all these objects are? Sometimes they’re not sure at first.

      FACT: There are many different objects in space. Besides planets, dwarf planets, moons, and the sun, there are also asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and space dust.

      One of the objects orbiting the sun is the dwarf planet Pluto. For 76 years scientists considered Pluto to be the ninth planet in our solar system. Then they found another object similar to Pluto. Was the other object, called Eris, also a planet? Scientists weren’t sure. If Eris wasn’t a planet, then was Pluto also not a planet? To answer that question, scientists had to come up with rules to decide what makes an object a planet or a dwarf planet.

      an artwork of the dwarf planet Eris and its moon

      Today, Eris and Pluto, along with three other objects in space—Ceres, Haumea, and Makemake—are known as the dwarf planets. A dwarf planet is round and orbits the sun like a planet. But they are found in areas with many other objects that aren’t planets, such as asteroids.

      comet: a ball of rock and ice that orbits the sun

      dwarf planet: an object that is round and orbits the sun near other space objects

      asteroid: a large space object that orbits the sun. Asteroids are too small to be called planets. Asteroids are

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