#  Pluto and Dwarf Planets 

 



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This tour explores bodies in our solar system that are too small to be classified as planets and too large to be comets. It answers the questions: What is a dwarf planet? Why isn’t Pluto a planet anymore? How was Pluto discovered? What are properties of the other known dwarf planets Eris, Ceres, Makemake and Haumea? \[5 min\]

#### Credits

Brett Repke and Daniel State

The full version of this tour can be downloaded here (by right-clicking) and viewed in the desktop version of WorldWide Telescope.



 

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 See also:- [ Tour ](/wwt1/tours)
- [ Undergraduate ](/student-tours/undergraduate)
- [ UMass Astro 101 ](/student-tours/umass-astro-101)