• Question: is it true that pluto is not a planet anymore?

    Asked by game43ear to Jenny, Janis, Jess on 11 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by cake43can.
    • Photo: Janis Aleksans

      Janis Aleksans answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      It is true. The reason for that is that Pluto is very small. Its whole surface area is smaller than surface of Russia. And as our telescopes got better, we have realized there are a lot of other space bodies similar to Pluto in our system, so rather than having ten or so new planets similar to Pluto, it was decided not to account for Pluto as planet anymore.

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