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Space is amazing to tell u more information I build this sitee .Are you wondering how many planets are in the Solar System? Until just a few years ago, there were 9 planets in the Solar System. However, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto is no longer a planet, so there are now only 8 planets in the Solar System.
Why is Pluto not a planet? We have a whole article that discusses this in great detail, but it happened because astronomers discovered a new object larger than Pluto out beyond its orbit. This object is called Eris, and it’s at least a few hundred kilometers bigger than Pluto. The IAU wondered if this object should be considered a planet too?
At that, there could have been 10 planets in the Solar System, and maybe more.
The IAU met in decided that planets need to have 3 things:
- they need to orbit the Sun
- they need to have enough gravity to pull themselves into a ball
- they need to have cleared out all other objects from their orbit.
Although it orbits the Sun, and has pulled itself into a sphere, Pluto has failed to clear out all the other objects from its orbit. Earth more than 1 million times more massive than all the other material in its orbit combined, while Pluto is just a tiny fraction of the rest of the icy material around it.
The IAU decided that Pluto and Eris should be reclassified as dwarf planets. The asteroid Ceres meets those requirements, so it’s a dwarf planet too.
So, how many planets in the Solar System? Until a new, large object is discovered out beyond Pluto, there are only 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets.total is 11 :D