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    The document discusses the ongoing debate about whether Pluto should be considered a planet. It provides details about the size of Pluto compared to other celestial bodies like Eris, Mercury, and Ceres. Pluto has an elliptical orbit that is more eccentric than most planets, and it was discovered in 1930. In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft was scheduled to arrive at Pluto to learn more about its composition and status in the solar system.

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    The document discusses the ongoing debate about whether Pluto should be considered a planet. It provides details about the size of Pluto compared to other celestial bodies like Eris, Mercury, and Ceres. Pluto has an elliptical orbit that is more eccentric than most planets, and it was discovered in 1930. In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft was scheduled to arrive at Pluto to learn more about its composition and status in the solar system.

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    The document discusses the ongoing debate about whether Pluto should be considered a planet. It provides details about the size of Pluto compared to other celestial bodies like Eris, Mercury, and Ceres. Pluto has an elliptical orbit that is more eccentric than most planets, and it was discovered in 1930. In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft was scheduled to arrive at Pluto to learn more about its composition and status in the solar system.

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    Date: 05/10/2010 Time:12.52.08

    Big argument about Pluto continues the most up-to-date book on the solar system,Worlds that discusses of the controversy over the planet of Pluto and Eris.

    Pluto is a planet? YES Pluto is the tenth-largest object Change orientation or direction,the Planet knowledge around the Sun also in the abstract
    sense of scientific knowledge around our Solar System,it had the same orbit around the Sun as Mars,important Planet orbiting the Sun.

    Diameter of Mercury: 3,032 miles.


    --------------------------------------------
    Diameter of Ganymede (Jupiter’s
    biggest moon): 3,272 miles
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    Diameter of Moon: 2,159
    miles ( Earth’s)
    --------------------------------------------- Eris was discovered in 2005 by planet-hunting -----------------------------------
    Diameter of Eris: 1,500 miles, and first new planet found orbiting the Sun in 75 years.
    Eris can be no more than 1,454 miles (2,340 kilometers)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The new observation 2010
    Diameter of Pluto: 1,430 miles.
    Pluto is believed to be 1,456 miles across. So is Pluto 2 miles wider.
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    Diameter of Ceres: 590 miles.


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    Mercury’s orbital eccentricity: 0.21.------ Pluto’s orbital eccentricity: 0.25 ----------------


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    Pluto's controversial

    Pluto is two and a half times the diameter of Ceres,also Pluto is not an ice ball,but large member of the Kuiper belt, Mercury and Venus have
    no
    moons,Pluto have litle moons, known as, Charon, Nix and Hydra., as small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most
    elliptical orbit of all the planets, Pluto was discovered in 1930.Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune

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    In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld.

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    The New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled to arrive at Pluto in 2015

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    Our solar system consists of the sun, planets, moons, many dwarf planets, Astronomical Union officially designated Eris and Pluto "dwarf
    planets
    fact that they never hadn't cleared their orbital zones of other rocky objects that Pluto was frequently described as "the largest Kuiper belt
    object".

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