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Pluto is a planet, the same way Ceres and Makemake are planets.



And dozens more. It's just not a remarkable major planet.


It's not a major planet at all. It is a fairly remarkable minor planet, however: it's just close enough to see with optical telescopes, it's large enough to have hydrostatic equilibrium (it's round), and it's actually a binary system with the barycenter between Pluto and Charon, since Charon is also quite large.


"Not a remarkable major planet" does not imply "major planet"




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