Pluto is an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of planets/ dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was the first and the largest Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun.

In 2006, Pluto was recategorized as a dwarf planet along with three other planets in the solar system: Ceres; Makemake and Eris. These planets, along with Pluto, are much smaller than the other planets.

Almost all the planets travel around the sun in nearly perfect circles. But Pluto does not. It takes an oval-shaped path with the sun nowhere near its center.Also, its path is quite tilted from the nice, organised axis that all the planets rotate on. (Mercury has a slightly lop-sided orbit, although not nearly as much as Pluto's.)



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