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Which sentence in the passage can be used to conclude that Eris is a dwarf planet and not a planet?

Erls takes about 557 Earth years to orbit the Sun. It has a mean surface temperature of about 40 Kelvin. It has a nearly spherical shape. It has
several other objects in its orbit, though
few are as massive as itself. Eris is too far away and small to be clearly visible from the Earth. Scientists
used its moon, Dysnomla, to measure it Qris is believed to be slightly more massive than Pluto. However, both of them are smaller than Earth's
Moon. Eris orbits the Sun directly, it is not a satellite of another planet or dwarf planet.

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my teachers have always taught me that a dwarf planet cannot have other objects in its orbit seeing that the gravitational force will make it collide with the planet or push it out of the orbit. hope it helps xx

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I

think

Answer:

is.......

it has several other objects in its original, though few are as massive as itself........

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