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IAU downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full-sized planet. Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one it has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.
You could claim that Pluto is a planet as it rotates around our sun.
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