Any fourth grader knows the names of the solar system’s planets. There’s Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Oh yeah, and Pluto, right?
Illustration shows the relative sizes of Varuna, Charon, and Pluto. Nature
Image of 1998 W31 and moon. Veillet et al.
Maybe not anymore.
An oddball compared with the other eight orbs, Pluto is smaller than Earth’s moon.
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