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Pluto has a shape that is nearly round,and it orbits the sun.it has five known moons why is it called a dwarf planet and not a planet

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Pluto is considered a dwarf planet because it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit

Step-by-step explanation:

It orbits in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper belt, a distant region populated with frozen bodies left over from the solar system's formation.

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