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The Planet Nine: It Is Not Pluto

Outer Space is such a vast and really interesting topic to talk about. As we advance into research and discoveries, there’s always something to make our minds linger. This article is not just about demoting the Planet Pluto. A decade ago Mike Brown helped get Pluto demoted from a “planet” to a mere “dwarf planet.” A dwarf planet by definition is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite. That is, it is in direct orbit of the Sun, and is massive enough for its gravity to crush itself into a hydrostatic equilibrium shape (usually a spheroid), but has not cleared the neighborhood of other material around its orbit. The term dwarf planet was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way categorization of bodies orbiting the Sun, brought about by an increase in discoveries of objects farther away from the Sun than Neptune that rivaled Pluto in size, and finally precipitated by the discovery of an even more massive object, Eris. The exclusion of dwarf planets fro