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They realized that Pluto was in fact a member of another belt of objects orbiting the sun, similar to the asteroid belt. The same thing happened with four of the asteroids in the asteroid belt. Once scientists realized that they were just four of hundreds of thousands of objects sharing the same orbit, they no longer considered them planets. Pluto is a member of a similar belt of objects known as the Kuiper Belt.

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