Did you know about the truth of Pluto?

Ever since Pluto was founded in 1930, people during that era was so amazed, that one of them named an element as Plutonium, which could be found in Chemistry's Periodic Table. Yeah, and even Walt Disney's famous Mickey's dog, was named Pluto as well.





"Who knows it's because I was named Pluto that I became so famous! Geez!"


I believe you readers including me learnt that the solar system consists of The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.


(taken from www.seeingsciencecclrc.ac.uk)



Now if you hadn't been reading news lately, you will be flabbergasted, shocked or whatever emotions that I'm going to tell you that,


PLUTO IS NO LONGER A PLANET!

The story:

Ever since Pluto got discovered, people initially thought it was as big as Earth, but as time goes on, people realised that it was MUCH MORE SMALLER than our Earth's moon. Yet it was still called a planet.

Now it does makes you wonder that, IF the definition of planet is based on its size, and Pluto is much more smaller than Earth's moon, is it correct to say that our Moon is also a planet?

(There are alot more other details about this whole Pluto thing such as the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto etc, but I'm more general here. If you want to know more, do check out the internet yourself.)

There you go. Pluto's not a planet now.

And there you wonder, if Pluto's not a planet, what is it?!


Well, it's called a dwarf planet!!!

This declaration was decided during August 2006.

So as for now, we have 8 official planets and 3 dwarf planets in our solar system.