PLUTO

REASONS FOR PLUTO BECOMING A DWARF

• It's smaller than any other planet
• It's dense and rocky but it's neighbors are the outer planets
• Scientists say its orbit is out of the ordinary and not like all the
• other planets which make a perfect circle around the sun

CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANETS BY SCIENTISTS

• It's size
• Time to orbit
• Time to rotate
• Moons?
• Gravitational pull

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• What it's made of
• Distance from the Sun
• The planets temperature

DWARF PLANET VS. PLANET

• Dwarf planet is less than 3,103 miles in diameter
• Planets are bigger
• There are only 5 dwarf planets
• There are 9 main planets, including Earth
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A PLANET IS CELESTIAL BODY WHICH:

• Is in orbit around the Sun
• Has a sufficient mass to assume a nearly round shape
• Has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit
• A dwarf planet only passes the first two dots
• Pluto is a dwarf and interferes with Neptune's orbit, but they never crash

PLUTO TO A PLANET?

• For Pluto to become a planet these thing need to happen
• It needs to become a bigger size
• It has to have a even orbit where it doesn't interfere with another

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