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12 years ago
How did discovering the KBOs demote Pluto's planetary status? 
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12 years ago
If Pluto is a major planet, then many Kuiper Belt Objects are almost as big as Pluto, also orbit the Sun,  some of them have moons also, and most are in more circular orbits closer to the ecliptic, behaving more like planets than Pluto does.  Should they not also be counted as planets as well? 
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