What is Pluto other than a planet?

Answer 1

Because it orbits a planet (the Earth), the Moon is disqualified as being categorized as a planet; and is thus a moon (lower case). So it is known as "THE Moon" and it is "a moon" since it is a natural satellite.

Answer 2

Pluto was the ninth planet. The eighth planet is Neptune. The order of planets from the sun is:

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

*Ceres

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

**Pluto/Charon

***Eris

* The asteroid Ceres is large enough its own gravity has pulled it into a spherical shape. Ceres was considered to be a planet longer than Pluto was.

** Pluto has one moon so large (Charon) they co orbit, and could thus be considered a binary planet. Pluto has two additional moons.

*** Eris is larger than Pluto, and there are a number of other Kuiper Belt objects large enough to be described as "dwarf" planets.

Answer 3

Pluto is considered a dwarf planet, meaning it is a celestial body that orbits the sun and has not cleared its surrounding region of other debris. It is also the largest known member of the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Answer 4

No one is sure, but some say it is a moon.

Some people, like astronomers, are sure it's a dwarf planet.

Answer 5

Astronomers think that it was a moon that escaped from the planetary orbit.

Answer 6

it has been classfied as a rocky object in the solar system that the gravitational it forces apply to