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We've learned that the view of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants and one misfit Pluto is wrong. Now we understand Pluto's context.

It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in the solar system look like Pluto, and not like the terrestrial planets.

Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew.

If we want to understand the process by which planets and moons are formed, we need to understand both (Pluto's and Earth's) systems. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.

If Pluto is a planet, it seems reasonable that something that's bigger than Pluto, and further away than Pluto, should be called a planet, too.

Since UB 313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB 313 is not also given this status.

It's different from the inner rocky planets. It's different from the outer gaseous planets. And as such, it holds many clues as to how the solar system was formed.

That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects - not any sort of artifact - and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects – not any sort of artifact – and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system.

Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status.

The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting. It tells us that Pluto, which should properly also be counted to the Kuiper Belt, is not such an unusual object.

Wilhelm Altenhoff

The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto and two that are almost the size of Pluto. As we finish the other half of the sky we will almost certainly find a few more of around the same size and maybe one or two even larger.

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