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Why asteroid is said to be a planet?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A planet used to be defined as an object that orbits the Sun. Asteroids orbit the Sun, so are planets. Recently The definition of Planet has been revised so that they are not considered planets any more. (The redefinition has lead to Pluto no-longer being a planet too.)

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