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50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

NINE PLANETS ORBIT THE SUN

Science classes said our solar system has nine planets, but in 2006, tiny, distant, and icy Pluto was reclassified and lost its planetary status. It is now classified as a dwarf planet — just the biggest object in a huge belt of rocks circling the farthest fringes of the solar system. Don’t get too used to the classification, though. Some astronomers want to reclassify Pluto again, back to full “planet” status.

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