Pluto's back, baby! Seventeen years after it was demoted from planet to dwarf planet , it is time for Pluto to retake its former title…at least according to our hosts, Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane.
Of the requirements to officially be a planet, the one Pluto misses out on is the ability to clear its orbital path of debris: the distant little world is just not big enough to sweep away all the other rocks in its orbit. So what if it were bigger?
Publisher: New Scientist
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