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Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Pluto has roughly one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. Originally considered a planet, its classification was changed when astronomers adopted a new definition of planet.

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Joshua

Oh cool. Are we going to get to hear Noah talk about his favorite planet?

Andrew S

A planet is a sub-stellar mass body that has never undergone nuclear fusion and that has sufficient self-gravitation to assume a spheroidal shape adequately described by a triaxial ellipsoid regardless of its orbital parameters.

Laura Lusby

Fun that we’re talking about this the same week they announce we saw a new planet forming!

LisaLisa

Dave Grohl is a cheap imitation of Cecil Something Italian

Jorgen Karlsson

You hear about Pluto? It's messed up, right?

Sammypt

Well it’s actually quite interesting! You see…