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Just like Pluto they are considered Planetary Bodies, but don't have the formal distinction of being a Planet.

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Our Sun is most definitely a star. The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral class, is G2V, and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf. In the spectral class label, G2 indicates its surface temperature of approximately 5505 °C, and V indicates that the Sun, like most stars, is a main-sequencestar, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.

As for the moon, it is simply the Earth's natural Satellite, and the 5th largest satellite in our Solar System. It is not considered to be a planet because a planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant which is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity (and being in the Earth's orbit, the Moon does not fit these criteria; thus being a natural satellite).

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