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Name three reasons (any three) that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet

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User Tamlok
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Answer:

a dwarf planet:

is in orbit around the Sun.

It has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape).

It has “cleared the neighborhood” around its orbit.

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