Should Pluto Have The Qualities Of A Planet

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The universe is so big and mysterious that you never know what it’s going to throw at you. When you think you got everything figured out, you encounter a bump on the road. This happens because the universe is so complex and infinite, that we are barely begging to understand it. We are still a very long way into fully understand the universe. Pluto originally discovered in 1930, and later given official planet status by the IAU has been an ongoing debate for decades (Freedman). There are those who believe Pluto absolutely has the qualities of a planet, and those who believe it’s just like any other comet or asteroid. Those who believe it should be considered a planet argued that indeed if it was small, it shouldn’t be visible at all so far

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