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How many planets are in the sky?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Well, there used to be 9 but now Pluto isn't a planet anymore so now there's 8 planets in the sky.

Just a minor correction - there are 8 planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune), but in SPACE there are billions - nobody knows how many.

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