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BUSTED! Pluto __ IS __ A Planet!

By: Emily Bowman Kourtnei Bryant Anna Dziwanowski Steven White

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__Comparison Table__ : for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body foroces. || Dwarf planets are not considered a subset of planets. ||
 * __Plants __ || __Dwarf __ ||
 * Planets has a massive spherical natural object that orbits around a central star. || Dwarf planets only have to be round. ||
 * Planets lie close to the same plane as Earth's, known as the ecliptic plane. || Dwarf planets don't have a cleared neighborhood around its orbit. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Planets must orbit the sun. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dwarf planets share its orbital space with other bodies of a similar size. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Planets must be big enough for gravity to squash it into a round ball. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dwarf planets don't become gravitationally dominant. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Planets must have cleared other things out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dwarf planets have polar caps and regions of frozen methane and nitrogen. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The names of the planets themselves reflect the names of ancient gods. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dwarf planets are not a satellite of another planet ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Planets are celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun, also has sufficient mass





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