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Plutos mean diameter is around 2296 km, while Mercury's mean diameter (the smallest planet) is 4878km. Even our moon is larger than Pluto, the moon mean diameter is 3474km. So it is very small compared with the 8 major planets.

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Venus, being 12104 km in diameter, is 5.27 times the size of pluto's small diameter of 2,296 km, meaning that it would take 5.27 plutos to equal the diameter of venus.

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