Pluto Not Reclassified as a Planet
by Rosie Nagele
Feb 07, 2018
2 minutes
Q: Has the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a “major planet”?
A: No. That claim was originally published years ago as an April Fool’s joke.
FULL ANSWER
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union amended the definition of a planet and decided that Pluto qualified as a “dwarf planet” instead.
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