How many modern day planets are there?
A few years ago there were 9 planets in Solar System, until International Astronomical Union decided Pluto is no longer a planet.
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About Solar system
The Solar system refers to the 8 planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids and comets other celestial bodies orbiting the star Sol. Sol is the name of our sun.
About Pluto
At one time Pluto was the ninth planet in our solar system, that is until 2006. Scientists decided that Pluto was too small to be a planet, and was redesignated as a "dwarf planet," and is the largest body in the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of asteroids that encircles the entire solar system. Pluto, depending on where it is in its orbit between 4.4 billion and 7.4 billion km from the sun.
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