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Pluto Is A Dwarf Planet
As we know that our solar system has a total of eight planets, after they decided Pluto wasn’t a planet it was then know to be a dwarf planet. What if there are other planets in our solar system? With advanced technology they did it, they found another planet that’s in our solar system, but it’s not proven yet. The high tech computers detect a planet but it has still not been seen by the human eye. So what this means is the the planet isn’t officially a planet until it has been seen by a human for it to be counting in our solar system.
After the agreement of deciding that Pluto is a dwarf planet, we were just left with the other eight planets, but there computer managed to pick up another planet. The features of the newly discovered planet
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