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What is similar about the comparison of pluto and ceres?

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Answer:Difference between Ceres and Pluto

Nestled in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is a tiny loner, while Pluto — in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system — is nearly three times as big and hosts a handful of moons. A mixture of rock and water ice dominates Ceres' landscape, while methane and nitrogen ices cover Pluto

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Ceres and Pluto are both spheroidal objects, like Mercury, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. That's part of the agreed upon definition of a planet. They both orbit a star, the Sun, like Venus, Mars, Uranus and Neptune. That's also part of the widely accepted definition of a planet.
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